Joe Murray Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Anyone who knows me, knows I don't walk away from a commitment, but I had a commitment to myself. Yes, there were times Nickelodeon made it more difficult than it needed to be, but there were also times they made it easier.”

“I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.”

“I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas 'are' funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier.”

“The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.”

“To the patient, any operation is momentous.”

“When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.”

“Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks.”

“I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.”

“Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.”

“Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well.”