Matt Will
Matt Will
judging pay miserable
I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.
machines pinball
I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great.
children play stuff
I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.
pops composer classical-composers
I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.
goes-on want
I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top.
taverns places-to-go frightened
I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go.
people appreciate jokes
Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.
book kids thinking
I always thought that television was the way to go in my goal to invade pop culture because it got to towns in which there were no bookstores. That's how I used to think of it: How do I reach kids who not only don't read but probably have no access to much in the way of books?
men cows
Don't have a cow, man.
important followers hell
As astute followers of 'Life in Hell' will notice, Akbar and Jeff wear the same striped T-shirt as Charlie Brown. 'Peanuts' was very important to me.
moved-on bedtime conan
A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.
nuts giving people
God often gives nuts to toothless people.
dark night views
Nihilism in American comedy came along way before 'The Simpsons.' There was a fairly nihilistic point of view to 'Saturday Night Live,' for instance, back in the beginning, and a lot of really dark comedy had a really anti-sentimental take on life.
brother father adventure
My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitiously, either while we were driving around or at dinner, and in 1963 he and I made up a story about a brother and a sister, Lisa and Matt, having an adventure out in the woods with animals.