Daniel Clowes Quotes - Page 4

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• Surely comics require more effort on the part of the reader than movies or television. I'm always learning new things you can do with comics that wouldn't work in any other medium, and often they require the need to process a lot of dense information. Of course, the trick is to make the complicated seem effortless and spontaneous.

  Daniel Clowes

  Effort, Complicated, Spontaneous

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• I see a lot of possibilities in the age of my characters - between 18 and 21. You have a window of opportunity when you leave your childhood behind and have this chance to become what you always wanted to be. For me, that was a time when I could have gone many different ways. I was in flux and deciding what kind of person I would become. There's something interesting about the vision of what that will be and the reality of making that happen, and how you really are what you are. Unless you're "in character," it's impossible to get around that.

  Daniel Clowes

  Character, Opportunity, Reality

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie. I say this as someone who would rather read comics than watch movies, listen to music, anything. But it's not an operatic medium. I hear other people talk about being moved to tears by comics. I can't imagine that.

  Daniel Clowes

  Moving, People, Tears

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I just try to make comics for myself, try to give it some kind of unity throughout. That often involves tiny details. I'm never sure what's going to be obvious or what nobody will ever notice. I put stuff in my comics that I thought was blatantly obvious, and nobody noticed. And things that I think are buried in the background, everybody gets it. So I try to be consistently aware of every part of the frame.

  Daniel Clowes

  Thinking, Giving, Unity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The greatest moment of my life was, somebody sent me a cable-access show from Chicago that had Joey Ramone on it showing the video we made together. And he was talking about, like, "This guy Dan Clowes postponed his wedding for us. He's a great guy."

  Daniel Clowes

  Guy, Together, Moments

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think politics has an influence on my work now, perhaps more so than when I was a childless young man, but I hope never to deal with these kinds of issues in anything more than a covert manner. I'm more interested in figuring out what I think than in pronouncing my views to the world.

  Daniel Clowes

  Men, Thinking, World

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• Film is a director's medium, and a film set is a complicated military structure - I have to keep reminding myself to stay in my place, or all will burst into chaos.

  Daniel Clowes

  Military, Chaos, Film

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• I used to use cigarettes to indicate somebody's an outsider a lot. It gave character a seedy, disreputable, almost suicidal quality. Now cigarettes are so unused - - you can't have anybody indoors smoking. If you drew that in a restaurant, you'd have to have a panel where the manager comes over and kicks them out. Unless it's set in Europe, you can't really do that. Characters who smoke - - it dates comics, somehow.

  Daniel Clowes

  Suicidal, Character, Smoking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'd always wanted to do a weekly strip, or a strip that was in installments like that. It's been fun trying to figure out how to make that work. Their standards are so prissy that they won't allow me to use all kinds of language. Not only can you not swear, this morning I was informed I couldn't use the word "schmuck." I couldn't use "crap," "schmuck," or "get laid." Those three were beyond the pale. But you get around that, and it comes out better. I can't quite explain why.

  Daniel Clowes

  Morning, Fun, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I could have somehow been the kind of artist who could crank out two or three issues a year, that's different. That's sort of what it's all about, to get this thing out so that there's some kind of continuity. But to do a comic book every year or two was just so anti-climactic.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Artist, Years

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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

  Daniel Clowes

  Drawing, Effort, Too Much

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.

  Daniel Clowes

  Littles, Rooms

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• 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.

  Daniel Clowes

  Morning, Editing, Years

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• I started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn't satisfying, but to actually draw our own world - it's like controlling your own dreams.

  Daniel Clowes

  Dream, Writing, Drawing

  "Clowes Encounter: An Interview With Daniel Clowes". www.motherjones.com. May 13, 2010.

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• Though to the average person that you'll meet on an airplane, if you tell them you draw comics, they'll still have sort of the same response - not like that's seeped into the culture at large, that comics are not just for kids.

  Daniel Clowes

  Kids, Airplane, Average

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I can look at my early work and see what a pained struggle it was to draw what I was drawing. I was trying so hard to get this specific look that was in my head, and always falling short.

  Daniel Clowes

  Struggle, Fall, Drawing

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.

  Daniel Clowes

  Thinking, Form, Disco

  "Clowes Encounter: An Interview With Daniel Clowes". www.motherjones.com. May 13, 2010.

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• Writing screenplays is very freeing from what you can do in comics in a lot of ways. You can change things around. I can take great delight in writing 40 pages, then just pressing delete and getting rid of it and not thinking about it ever again. Whereas in comics, if I had put that kind of effort into it, I couldn't go on.

  Daniel Clowes

  Writing, Thinking, Effort

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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• There are certain things in there that no one else would recognize, really. I see details of my life that I didn't even intend to put in when I was doing the work. 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.

  Daniel Clowes

  School, Kids, Rays

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• I think there was a point that I realized I could do what I wanted to do in terms of the drawing. I used to run around a lot of things. I would shy away from certain things that I realized would be horrible for me to draw, and just wouldn't be fun.

  Daniel Clowes

  Running, Fun, Thinking

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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• At a certain point, I realized that I could draw anything, and there was nothing I should avoid - I could make it work. That's opened me up to being able to be much more comfortable telling any kind of story.

  Daniel Clowes

  Stories, Able, Kind

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.

  Daniel Clowes

  Real, Age, Fluidity

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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• More and more, I tried to make comics in the way I like to read comics, and I found that when I read comics that are really densely packed with text, it may be rewarding when I finally do sit down and read it, but it never is going to be the first I'm going to read, and I never am fully excited to just sit down and read that comic.

  Daniel Clowes

  May, Down And, Way

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I knew how to draw all of the different smokestacks on the old trains and all that stuff, and then I realized that if I can draw trains, which is the thing I was probably the least interested in in the world at the time, I can do anything and find a way into it that will be interesting.

  Daniel Clowes

  Interesting, Way, Different

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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