Latest Alan Moore Quotes from Interviews

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• The only real reason that I'd have for working for Hollywood is the fantastic amounts of money involved, and that isn't enough of an incentive to really give up the degree of control that I have over my work at the moment with comics. I suppose that's probably why I don't have any designs on being a screenwriter.

  Alan Moore

  Giving Up, Real, Design

• I'm very pessimistic about adaptations from one medium to another. I've got a very kind of primitive, Puritan view of it. I tend to think that if something was derived for one medium, then there's no real immediate reason to think that it's necessarily going to be as good or better if adapted into another one. There have been very good stage plays that have made some very good films. But there are not so many differences between the theater and the cinema as there are between the cinema and, say, reading a book or reading a comic.

  Alan Moore

  Real, Book, Reading

• I doubt that there are many screenplays of movies that either of us have seen over the past 10 years that were first drafts, or were the work of purely one person. In my world, the actors and the director are all made of paper, and they do exactly what I say. I feel much more in control of the finished work. I feel like the statement that I'm making - even though it's in a medium by no means as glamorous or as widely recognized as film - is at least the statement that I wanted to make. That's a lot more important to me than the allure of working for Hollywood.

  Alan Moore

  Mean, Past, Doubt

• There's always been this feedback between comics and films. But I think that if you take that analogy too far, if you only see comic books in terms of films, then eventually the best we can end up with is films that don't move. It would make us a poor relation to the movie industry.

  Alan Moore

  Moving, Book, Thinking

• I don't really have any great interest in writing for movies. Comics, to me, is a much more promising field. There's still a lot of ground to be broken in comics, whereas movies, to a degree... I don't know. They're a wonderful art form, but they're not my favorite art form. They might not even be in the top five of my favorite art forms.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Writing, Broken

• I think I'm a bit like a kind of shark, that if I stop swimming, I won't be able to breathe, something like that.

  Alan Moore

  Swimming, Thinking, Sharks

  "Boy from the boroughs". Interview with Pádraig Ó Méalóid, www.3ammagazine.com. March 17, 2011.

• I should just keep me mouth shut, I just upset people.

  Alan Moore

  People, Upset, Mouths

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

• I've always wanted to explore characters of all races, all genders, all ages. It just seems to me to be a natural way to approach any kind of storytelling.

  Alan Moore

  Character, Race, Age

  "Boy from the boroughs". Interview with Pádraig Ó Méalóid, www.3ammagazine.com. March 17, 2011.

• I'm a very smug show-off at heart. I'm altogether too pleased with myself. The big boost for me is to be able to turn out something that I think is pretty marvelous, like 'Lost Girls.' I'm not in it for money, I'm just in it for the glory.

  Alan Moore

  Heart, Thinking, Able

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I've never really cared much about money. I've got enough to live on. And it's not like I live in a fancy house, it's not like I own a car, and it's not like I ever go on holiday.

  Alan Moore

  Holiday, Car, House

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'd prefer to include sex scenes alongside the adventure scenes and everyday-life scenes, as if they were all part of the same thing. Which of course they are. Sex is not discrete from the rest of our existence.

  Alan Moore

  Sex, Adventure, Everyday

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think if you were to sever the connection between arousal and shame, you might actually come up with something liberating and socially useful. It might be healthier for us, and lead to a situation such as they enjoy in Holland, Denmark, or Spain, where they have pornography all over the place - quite hardcore pornography - but they do not have anywhere the incidence of sex crimes.

  Alan Moore

  Sex, Thinking, Connections

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment and guilt, and those dark corners breed all sorts of monsters.

  Alan Moore

  Dark, Imagination, Healthy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• If you're using sex to sell sneakers, then you're not just selling sneakers, you're selling sex as well, and you're contributing to the sexual temperature of society.

  Alan Moore

  Sex, Sneakers, Temperature

  Source: www.avclub.com

• In countries like the U.S. and Great Britain, we exist in a wholly sexualized culture, where everything from cars to snack food are sold with a healthy slathering of sex to make them more commercially appealing.

  Alan Moore

  Country, Sex, Snacks

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I don't like to go to conventions, and I don't like to relate to people on a level of hero worship, because there's no real communication going on there.

  Alan Moore

  Real, Communication, Hero

  Interview with Peter Bebergal, believermag.com. June 1, 2013.

• It doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside.

  Alan Moore

  People, Trying, Groups

  Source: www.believermag.com

• I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.

  Alan Moore

  Shy, Parades, Persons

  Interview with Peter Bebergal, believermag.com. June 1, 2013.

• When I hear alcoholics talk about having their demons, I think that they're probably absolutely literally correct.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, Demon, Alcoholics

  "'Hey, You Can Just Make Stuff Up.' Differences Between Magic And Art: None" by Peter Bebergal, "The Believer", 2013.

• Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Magic, Language

  "'Hey, You Can Just Make Stuff Up.' Differences Between Magic And Art: None" by Peter Bebergal, "The Believer", 2013.

• I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the link between magic and writing. I think that they are profoundly connected.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Peter Bebergal, believermag.com. June 1, 2013.

• The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information.

  Alan Moore

  Different, Narrative, Information

  Interview with Peter Bebergal, believermag.com. June 1, 2013.

• It's pretty much a fact that our entire universe is a mental construct. We don't actually deal with reality directly. We simply compose a picture of reality from what's going on in our retinas, in the timpani of our ears, and in our nerve endings.

  Alan Moore

  Reality, Nerves, Ears

  Source: www.believermag.com