Alan Moore Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Book, Writing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s TV show, or even as a comic book. Now you’ve got theme park rides as the source material of movies. The only things left are breakfast cereal mascots. In our lifetime, we will see Johnny Depp playing Captain Crunch.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Cereal, Tv Shows

  "Alan Moore On Watchmen’s “Toxic Cloud” And Creativity V. Big Business". Interview with Susan Karlin, www.fastcompany.com. February 14, 2012.

• To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Lazy, Film

  "Alan Moore: The reluctant hero", www.independent.co.uk. March 15, 2004.

• There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic book and go out and meet some of them rather than studying the way that Stan Lee or Chris Claremont depict people.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Writing, People

• I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Chance, Adaptation

  "Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League, and Making Magic". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. February 23, 2009.

• There's always been this feedback between comics and films. But I think that if you take that analogy too far, if you only see comic books in terms of films, then eventually the best we can end up with is films that don't move. It would make us a poor relation to the movie industry.

  Alan Moore

  Moving, Book, Thinking

• It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Character, Games

• I'm very pessimistic about adaptations from one medium to another. I've got a very kind of primitive, Puritan view of it. I tend to think that if something was derived for one medium, then there's no real immediate reason to think that it's necessarily going to be as good or better if adapted into another one. There have been very good stage plays that have made some very good films. But there are not so many differences between the theater and the cinema as there are between the cinema and, say, reading a book or reading a comic.

  Alan Moore

  Real, Book, Reading

• My main point about films is that I don't like the adaptation process, and I particularly don't like the modern way of comic book-film adaptations, where, essentially, the central characters are just franchises that can be worked endlessly to no apparent point.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Character, Way

  "Alan Moore: 'Why shouldn't you have a bit of fun while dealing with the deepest issues of the mind?'". Interview with Stuart Kelly, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2013.

• My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in the '60s, they brought in a generation of comic book fans who would have paid to have written these stories.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Example, Fans

  "Alan Moore: an extraordinary gentleman - Q&A". Interview With Subhajit Banerjee, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2011.

• When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn't have to follow 'Watchmen' and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I'm not a particularly dark individual.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Dark, Different

  "Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League, and Making Magic". Interview, www.wired.com. February 23, 2009.

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