Bill Sienkiewicz Quotes

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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• Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.

  

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• So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

  

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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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• But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.

  

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

  

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• After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

  

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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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• 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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• 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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• If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special.

  

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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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• You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.

  

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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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• 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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• Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.

  

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• And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.

  

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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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