Daniel Clowes Quotes
In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
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I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.
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When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.
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I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
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For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.
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That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
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I don't read much of anything online.
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I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
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I try personally not to be nostalgic.
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I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.
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I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
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I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.