Latest Kurt Busiek Quotes from Interviews

• If I won the lottery tomorrow - which would be a real trick, since I haven't entered - and was independently wealthy for the rest of my life, I'd write comic books, because it's what I like doing.

  Kurt Busiek

  Real, Book, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity.

  Kurt Busiek

  Fun, Writing, Skills

  Source: www.avclub.com

• It's fun to take a piece of formula and go someplace else with it and see what happens.

  Kurt Busiek

  Fun, Pieces, Formulas

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I seem to like playing with form, and the superhero genre has an awful lot of formula to it. It has a lot of formula to it that I don't think it should be limited to.

  Kurt Busiek

  Thinking, Superhero, Awful

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The metaphor is the story, not the character.

  Kurt Busiek

  Character, Stories, Metaphor

  Source: www.avclub.com

• If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it.

  Kurt Busiek

  Character, Stories, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The metaphors exist for the stories.

  Kurt Busiek

  Stories, Metaphor

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.

  Kurt Busiek

  Character, Different, Metaphor

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used to express the kind of metaphors that I find in each story.

  Kurt Busiek

  Character, Trying, Stories

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think the Hulk has always appealed very strongly to much younger readers than Spider-Man, because Spider-Man is an adolescent character, and the Hulk is a very childlike character.

  Kurt Busiek

  Character, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The Hulk is rage personified, just, "I don't like something. Break it." And that's a great concept for a seven- or eight-year-old.

  Kurt Busiek

  Years, Eight, Rage

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think that the superhero-as-metaphor involves a superhero being some sort of intellectual, emotional, or other such concept writ large. But I don't know that it's a necessary part of the appeal that the superhero be superior.

  Kurt Busiek

  Emotional, Thinking, Superhero

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think James Bond is a spy. He's not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies "comic-book movies."

  Kurt Busiek

  Book, Thinking, Superhero

  Source: www.avclub.com

• "Superhero" is a term that's been borrowed in order to say "big and larger than life and loud and active and dumb." And I don't think that's a useful definition. That's more a dismissal.

  Kurt Busiek

  Thinking, Order, Superhero

  Source: www.avclub.com

• There are a lot of discussions where people will decide that James Bond is a superhero, because he's a larger-than-life hero who beats the bad guys by doing larger-than-life things. And I don't think that's a useful definition.

  Kurt Busiek

  Hero, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Superhero creators who engage in deconstruction fall into two categories: There are the guys who do it because it's easy, because it gets an audience reaction if you point out that superheroes must be a bunch of psychotic nuts. And there are the guys who do it because they're actually interested, and they're trying to get at what's going on underneath. They're interested in the process and the results.

  Kurt Busiek

  Fall, Nuts, Two

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I've always been positive about superheroes.

  Kurt Busiek

  Superhero

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think the purpose of deconstruction is to take something apart and see how it works. If you're not going to put it back together again and watch it go, what's the point?

  Kurt Busiek

  Thinking, Together Again, Purpose

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.

  Kurt Busiek

  Writing, Ideas, Pages

  Source: www.avclub.com

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