Daniel Clowes Quotes - Page 4

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• I think a comic looks better in the magazine. The colors are designed to be on paper, not illuminated on screen. I don't like the aspect of people reading it for free. When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously. But I don't know. I'm sure 10 times more people are reading it online than in the actual paper.

  Daniel Clowes

  Reading, Thinking, People

  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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• 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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• 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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• You have to find the tone of the piece and modulate that. There are ways to indicate that - I try to incorporate the biggest range I can within the story, going from humorous to serious without it being jarring. That's the hardest part, to keep that balance. It requires being constantly aware of where you are in the story. You can't really do that in a movie: You can't slightly modulate the tone by the way the character's eyeballs look in one certain scene.

  Daniel Clowes

  Humorous, Balance, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• Writing a screenplay, I'm like, "All I'm responsible for is that final script, and I take great effort and pride in that." But once I give it to someone to make, I can disassociate with it entirely and not worry that my vision isn't being represented, because I understand fully that that's not how it works.

  Daniel Clowes

  Writing, Pride, Giving

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. May 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've felt that in the past, where I just felt like I had to keep drawing in the same way to maintain this sameness and rhythm throughout an entire book, and it was not really necessary.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Past, Drawing

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

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

  Daniel Clowes

  Trying, Together, Stories

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

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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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• Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable.

  Daniel Clowes

  Nerd, Culture, Stuff

  "Clowes Encounter: An Interview With Daniel Clowes". Interview with Dave Gilson, 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 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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• 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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• 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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• There are certain comics that just seem like they have this perfect balance between dialogue and image that I can't not read. I'll want to save it for later, and the next thing I know, I'm reading it. That's what I'm kind of trying to do with my comics.

  Daniel Clowes

  Reading, Perfect, Balance

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

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• I have cultivated a little crew of people whose opinions I understand. It's like the way you'd follow certain film critics because you know what their criteria are, and you may not agree with them, but you can glean from their opinion how you will feel about a film.

  Daniel Clowes

  Film Critics, People, Way

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

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• Certainly it's great to be able to talk to your friends about something. They might mention a film, and you can find all about it, and you don't have to wait months until you can find a book that might cover the subject and keep it in your head. You can have that kind of immediacy. But there's also something about it, where all the knowledge seems kind of fleeting. All the stuff I learn about in that way, I can be interested in for a day and then it's gone.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Waiting, Stuff

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

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• You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something good.

  Daniel Clowes

  Illustration, Needs, Want

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

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• I've had a real lucky time working in Hollywood. I've talked to other screenwriters, and they're all kind of beaten down and their spirits are crushed, because they work on these screenplays and these projects, and then directors either take them and change everything, rewrite them and make them worse, or they film them and they're nothing like how they imagined it to be.

  Daniel Clowes

  Real, Down And, Directors

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

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• Usually when I put together a book like this Death-Ray hardcover or that Ghost World special edition, then I have to reread it and see if there is anything I want to change or any re-coloring I want to do. That's when I'm faced with the actual work. When I'm working, I'm too close to it. I'm sort of inside, and I can't see it at all. So when I have that experience of rereading it years later, it's jarring.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Years, Together

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

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