Alan Moore Quotes - Page 11

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

  Alan Moore

  Growing Up, School, Boys

  "Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• I've no objection to the term 'graphic novel,' as long as what it is talking about is actually some sort of graphic work that could conceivably be described as a novel. My main objection to the term is that usually it means a collection of six issues of Spider-Man, or something that does not have the structure or any of the qualities of a novel, but is perhaps roughly the same size.

  Alan Moore

  Mean, Men, Talking

  "In League with Alan Moore". Interview with Mark Askwith, www.locusmag.com. July 2003.

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• The superman exists and he's American.

  Alan Moore

  Alan Moore (1987). “Watchmen”, Dc Comics

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• I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.

  Alan Moore

  Kings, Sheep, Black

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• I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, Ideas, Imagination

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• I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.

  Alan Moore

  Believe, Everyday, Stuff Happens

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• It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

  Alan Moore

  Years, Rose, Three

  "Fictional character: Valerie". "V for Vendetta", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait. She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's getting older. It's true. She's aging more noticeably every day — while I am standing still. I prefer the stillness here. I am tired of Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.

  Alan Moore

  Tired, Here I Am, People

  "Fictional character: Dr. Manhattan". "Watchmen", www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• 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.

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• I felt, if I'm going to react I might as well over react.

  Alan Moore

  Might, Wells, Ifs

  "Alan Moore “Chain Reaction” Interview Transcript". www.cbr.com. January 27, 2005.

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• I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing in the world worth having. we must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.

  Alan Moore

  Giving, World, Lasts

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• None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.

  Alan Moore

  Rorschach, Locked Up, Locked

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• I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.

  Alan Moore

  Dark, Sense Of Humor, Moments

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

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• Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.

  Alan Moore

  Men, Mask, Form

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• I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.

  Alan Moore

  Mediums, Industry

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

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• That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

  Alan Moore

  Marketing, Phrases, Idiot

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• I love films that are made with almost no budget.

  Alan Moore

  Film, Made, Budgets

  "Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

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• Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

  Alan Moore

  Kicking It, People, Trying

  "Alan Moore Takes League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to the ’60s". Interview With Scott Thill, www.wired.com. July 21, 2011.

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• Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike...except in California.

  Alan Moore

  Rain, Cupcakes, California

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• On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

  Alan Moore

  Writing, Trying, Unendurable

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

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• The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.

  Alan Moore

  Religious, Party, Organization

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

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