Seth MacFarlane
Seth MacFarlane
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane is an American television producer, filmmaker, actor, and singer, working primarily in animation and comedy, as well as live-action and other genres. He is the creator of the TV series Family Guy, co-creator of the TV series American Dad!and The Cleveland Show, and writer-director of the films Ted, its sequel Ted 2, and A Million Ways to Die in the West...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionVoice Actor
Date of Birth26 October 1973
CityKent, CT
CountryUnited States of America
What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.
Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.
The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.
There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.
I tend to lean more towards the Westerns of the 40s and 50s as opposed to the 60s and 70s. They get a little too drab for me when you get into the Spaghetti Western era. I love the John Ford movies. I love the music. I love the scope.
I'm not a fatalist. I'm not a religious person. I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time.
The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.
The only problem is time.
'Family Guy' has this weird thing of attracting people. People either hate it or can't get enough of it. There's really no one in between.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'
Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.
I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.
When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.