Bill Sienkiewicz Quotes

• 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

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist, Different, Looks

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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.

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Movie, Artist, 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

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Mean, Artist, Style

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• Cartooning is an honorable thing

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist, Honorable

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• I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Black And White, Artist, Paint

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

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist, Media, Driven

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

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist, Technique, Irrelevant

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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

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist, World, States

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• So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist, Pushing Boundaries, Safe

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

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist, Filled In, Missing

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• If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it

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  Levels, Unreality, Certain

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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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  Journey, People, Way

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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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  Artist, Looks, Film

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• Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist, Blood

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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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  Artist, Want, Avenues

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

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Art, School, Illustrators

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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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  Book, Artist, Lucky

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• And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist, Clients, Assignments

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• I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist, Want, Stuff

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• Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist, Versions

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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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  Artist, Essence, Interesting

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• And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.

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  World, Physics, Constant

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• I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants

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  Mutants, Want, Feels

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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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  Way, Facts, Venues

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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

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Envelopes, Pushing, Honorable

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