"For me, the question was, how can one take a live-action performance and put it in the parameter of one of those cartoons? How much can you get away with?"

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There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd say, 'Yeah well, that's not me. I'm just interested in that because I think it makes a funny drawing.' But later I understood it was me in many respects; my hand was doing it ahead of the head's understanding.

— Michael Leunig