Quotes by Daniel Clowes

Daniel Clowes

Alfred Hitchcock talked about planning out his movies so meticulously that when he was actually shooting and editing, it was the most boring thing in the world. But drawing comics isn’t like shooting a movie. You can shoot a movie in a few days and be done with it, but drawing a comic takes years and years… 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.

Editing

Morning

Years

Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.

Stories

Together

Trying

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

Enjoy

Opportunity

Use

But they always just laugh off everything I say, when really I want absolutely nothing more than to destroy the world they live in and to watch them suffer, alone and miserable, trying to live in my world for a change!

Laughing

Suffering

Trying

Even if I only had 10 readers, I’d rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

Book

Online

Reader

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them… that’s why you’ll never hear any reggae on the radio!

Media

Radio

Thinking

Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!” “That’s not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers

Art

Hate

School

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.

Kids

Rays

School

I actually start drawing things. Usually they’re abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.

Drawing

Effort

Too Much

I believe in the transformative power of cinema. It is only through this shared dream-experience that we can transcend the oppressive minutiae of daily existence and find some spiritual connection in the deeper reality of our mutual desire.

Believe

Dream

Spiritual

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Able

Aesthetic

Airplane

Art

Art School

Artist

Average

Beats

Believe

Book

Challenges

Character

Complicated

Different

Difficult

Directors

Disappear

Down And

Drawing

Dream

Editing

Effort

Enjoy

Feelings

Feels

Film

Fun

Giving

Goal

Guy

Hate

Illustration

Imagine

Individual

Interesting

Issues

Kids

Kissing

Laughing

Lines

Littles

May

Mean

Media

Moments

Morning

Moving

Needs

Nostalgic

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Quotes by Daniel Clowes

Daniel Clowes

Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

But they always just laugh off everything I say, when really I want absolutely nothing more than to destroy the world they live in and to watch them suffer, alone and miserable, trying to live in my world for a change!

Even if I only had 10 readers, I’d rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them… that’s why you’ll never hear any reggae on the radio!

Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!” “That’s not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers

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.

I actually start drawing things. Usually they’re abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.

I believe in the transformative power of cinema. It is only through this shared dream-experience that we can transcend the oppressive minutiae of daily existence and find some spiritual connection in the deeper reality of our mutual desire.

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