But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.

The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format.

Yes, it's a prequel. It tells the story about how the girls were born with superpowers, but they weren't necessarily heroes at the beginning of this movie, so the movie is about the events that happen in their life to make them decide to be heroes.

I started working at Hanna-Barbera in '92 on 2 Stupid Dogs.

I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.

Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw.

But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.

First, there was 2 Stupid Dogs. Then, Dexter's Laboratory. And now, Powerpuff Girls. There were a lot of little things in between, but those were the main ones.

One of the main things I do is focus on ideas and what stories we decide to tell, but probably the biggest part of my job I'd say is working on the storyboards.

So what I do is supervise the boarding process trying to get the shows the way I'd like them to be. And in some cases I've completely redone a board myself even though I'm not credited for it.

Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not.

I'm hoping that word-of-mouth on the film - people seeing it and liking it - that that will drive more people to the theaters, because I haven't seen the billboards or the posters or anything.

The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small so I didn't draw fingers, nose, ears, etc and this drawing had a certain appeal that I really liked.

Basicly I'm in charge of all creative aspects of the show.

Anything you see on the screen was at one point approved by me.

I'm always thinking about what I might want to do next, but there's still things I want to do with Powerpuff - so I can keep going with this one for awhile.

I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.

The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene.

There's a lot you can do without words.

It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking.

For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.

We chose the actors thru a series of auditions when we started the show.

I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?

During one of my early seminars, there were a bunch of seminar junkies there.

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.

It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.

I love writing.

Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months for 'Shard,' three years for 'When My Name Was Keoko!' The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

Changing your perspectives will not only transform you but also the whole world.

I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.

It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.

Deliberation is a good thing when it comes to fighting wars.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

Peace and security both in Europe and in the Pacific still depend on a balance of power.

In big battle scenes, like 'King Arthur', you see the knights in all their fine armour, but they're not in the thick of it: follow the perspective, and you'll find some poor little sod, who didn't want to be there, anyway, with his head split.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

I suppose I was a frustrated artist. I like fitting things together, and there are plenty of different ways to do that with real estate.

Low self confidence isnt a life sentence. Self confidence can be learned practiced and mastered just like any other skill. Once you master it everything in your life will change for the better.

I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up.

Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count; sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.