Alan Moore Quotes - Page 7

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• 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.

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• Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

  Alan Moore

  Ends

  "Watchmen". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1986 - 1987.

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• They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.

  Alan Moore

  War, Men, World

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• In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

  Alan Moore

  Numbers, Mind, Connections

  "He does it with magic". Interview with Nick Hasted, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2000.

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• American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.

  Alan Moore

  Glasses, Rorschach, Bottles

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• The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, Moments, Vendetta

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• Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.

  Alan Moore

  Simple, Awful

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• War is a perversion of sex.

  Alan Moore

  Sex, War, Perversion

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• There... Poor little things. You see them? Standing with their numbers on their blank, indifferent faces, Nuremberg in miniature, the ranks of painted wooden men... Poor dominoes. Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers down it goes.

  Alan Moore

  Men, Numbers, Long

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• I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.

  Alan Moore

  Past, Years, Everyday

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• I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion.

  Alan Moore

  Stars, Names, Space

  "Watchmen". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1986 - 1987.

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• A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.

  Alan Moore

  Growing, Late, Critique

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

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• The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth]

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  Vendetta, Multiplying, Swarms

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• Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment and guilt, and those dark corners breed all sorts of monsters.

  Alan Moore

  Dark, Imagination, Healthy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

  Alan Moore

  Writing, Good Day, Emotional

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• Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

  Alan Moore

  War, Men, People

  "The Craft". Interview with Daniel Whiston, "Engine Comics", January 2005.

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• I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.

  Alan Moore

  Technology, Amish, Kind

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• Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.

  Alan Moore

  Progress, Nihilism, Brilliant

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

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• Life isn't divided into genres

  Alan Moore

  Genre, Divided

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• It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.

  Alan Moore

  Country, America, Superhero

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

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• All culture must have arisen from cult.

  Alan Moore

  Culture, Cult

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• In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.

  Alan Moore

  Echoes, Pace, Pieces

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• They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

  Alan Moore

  Games, Boards, Vendetta

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• People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.'

  Alan Moore

  Long, People, Answers

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• As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Hero, Knowing

  Alan Moore, John Higgins (2005). “Watchmen”, Dc Comics

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