Alan Moore Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• I've always wanted to explore characters of all races, all genders, all ages. It just seems to me to be a natural way to approach any kind of storytelling.

  Alan Moore

  Character, Race, Age

  "Boy from the boroughs". Interview with Pádraig Ó Méalóid, www.3ammagazine.com. March 17, 2011.

• I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.

  Alan Moore

  Dream, Adventure, Character

• Everything you've ever read of mine is first-draft. This is one of the peculiarities of the comics field. By the time you're working on chapter three of your masterwork, chapter one is already in print. You can't go back and suddenly decide to make this character a woman, or have this one fall out of a window.

  Alan Moore

  Fall, Character, Three

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 24, 2001.

• If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many of the fears and hopes of those times embedded in those characters. Even in throwaway bits of contemporary culture you can often find some penetrating insights into the real world around us.

  Alan Moore

  Real, Character, Culture

• 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

• 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.

• Judged by the stark, sure-footed portrait in Hard Time, Brian Azzarello and Richard Corben clearly have John Constantine down, cold and to the life. Azzarellos grasp of pacing, character and situation resonates through every scene with a black crystal clarity thats short of masterful, while Corben contributes what is, perhaps, one of the most darkly expressive pieces in a long, already-legendary career.

  Alan Moore

  Character, Hard Times, Careers

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