Bill Sienkiewicz Quotes
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Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.
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Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects.
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So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.
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So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.
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One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much.
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To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.
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People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to.
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That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.
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So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different.
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Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story.
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It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed.
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But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.
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Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident.
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For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States.
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There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.
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If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special.
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After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.
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But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it.
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I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants.
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So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.
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And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client.
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I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.
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I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff.
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Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.