Bill Watterson Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.

  Bill Watterson

  Character, Built

  "The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1992.

• The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.

  Bill Watterson

  Movie, Character, Rights

• Dad: Honey, have you seen my glasses? I can"t find them. Mom: I haven't seen them. Calvin: (with glasses, to Dad) Calvin, go do something you hate! Being miserable builds character!

  Bill Watterson

  Mom, Dad, Hate

• If you have the personalities down, you understand them and identify with them; you can stick them in any situation and have a pretty good idea of how they're going to respond. Then it's just a matter of sanding and polishing up the jokes. But if you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well. These two characters clicked for me almost immediately and I feel very comfortable working with them.

  Bill Watterson

  Character, Ideas, Two

• What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.

  Bill Watterson

  Writing, Character, Trying

  Source: www.tcj.com

• I'm pulling out different aspects of my personality in writing each character and, if I'm doing my job well, I'm being true to the situation and true to the character.

  Bill Watterson

  Jobs, Writing, Character

  Source: www.tcj.com

• You can draw a penguin on a toilet reading The New York Times and it's adorable, but try doing it with an adult male character, and it's disgusting.

  Bill Watterson

  New York, Reading, Character

  Source: www.tcj.com

• I've always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren't moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration. There's great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.

  Bill Watterson

  Moving, Character, Expression

  Source: www.tcj.com

• If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.

  Bill Watterson

  Character, Stereotype, Plastic

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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