Daniel Clowes Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• That's been my main interest for the last 15 years, is to really make sure the story and the characters take precedence over everything else, and that I give them everything I can to make them exist as actual people.

  Daniel Clowes

  Character, Years, People

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

• I used to use cigarettes to indicate somebody's an outsider a lot. It gave character a seedy, disreputable, almost suicidal quality. Now cigarettes are so unused - - you can't have anybody indoors smoking. If you drew that in a restaurant, you'd have to have a panel where the manager comes over and kicks them out. Unless it's set in Europe, you can't really do that. Characters who smoke - - it dates comics, somehow.

  Daniel Clowes

  Suicidal, Character, Smoking

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I see a lot of possibilities in the age of my characters - between 18 and 21. You have a window of opportunity when you leave your childhood behind and have this chance to become what you always wanted to be. For me, that was a time when I could have gone many different ways. I was in flux and deciding what kind of person I would become. There's something interesting about the vision of what that will be and the reality of making that happen, and how you really are what you are. Unless you're "in character," it's impossible to get around that.

  Daniel Clowes

  Character, Opportunity, Reality

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I try to employ a different strategy for each story. Often, I'll have a specific look in mind before I even have the story to go with it. I'm not so much interested in forcing the issue of reader identification through various graphic tricks. I'm more interested in creating specific characters that resonate with my own particular inner struggles.

  Daniel Clowes

  Struggle, Character, Mind

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

• I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

  Daniel Clowes

  Character, Littles, Difficult

  "Daniel Clowes: 'You've got to be obsessed" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2010.

• My feeling is that it's one of the very few things that comics can do that you really can't do in any other medium. I feel like the reader accepts all of these styles, and after a certain point you can flip the pages and see a character rendered very differently than you saw on an earlier page, and it's not jarring. It suggests things that you can't suggest just in the writing or in the plotting.

  Daniel Clowes

  Writing, Character, Feelings

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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