Daniel Clowes Quotes - Page 4

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• One of my weekend hobbies is to go look at old houses when there are open houses around here. Just to go look at the architecture. And you can see how many houses were built around 1977, the year where everyone said, "Let's put in these aluminum windows instead of beautiful hand-made wood ones."

  Daniel Clowes

  Beautiful, Weekend, Hands

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

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• Alfred Hitchcock talked about planning out his movies so meticulously that when he was actually shooting and editing, it was the most boring thing in the world. But drawing comics isn't like shooting a movie. You can shoot a movie in a few days and be done with it, but drawing a comic takes years and years... That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

  Daniel Clowes

  Morning, Editing, Years

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

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• I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.

  Daniel Clowes

  Littles, Rooms

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

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• I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.

  Daniel Clowes

  Drawing, Effort, Too Much

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

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• I think that gulf is what makes the work interesting, but as a creator it's endlessly frustrating because I'm starting out with this goal, this thing I'm trying to create, and then the thing I actually do create is very, very different. It's always painful, in some ways, especially when it's just finished.

  Daniel Clowes

  Thinking, Goal, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I could have somehow been the kind of artist who could crank out two or three issues a year, that's different. That's sort of what it's all about, to get this thing out so that there's some kind of continuity. But to do a comic book every year or two was just so anti-climactic.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Artist, Years

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

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• I've felt that in the past, where I just felt like I had to keep drawing in the same way to maintain this sameness and rhythm throughout an entire book, and it was not really necessary.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Past, Drawing

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

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• I think if you had different artists approaching the material in different styles, that's very different. I think it's an interesting thing to discover, what's present in the work even when you're shifting the styles. I've just found it a much stronger way to work.

  Daniel Clowes

  Artist, Thinking, Interesting

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

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• 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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• Surely comics require more effort on the part of the reader than movies or television. I'm always learning new things you can do with comics that wouldn't work in any other medium, and often they require the need to process a lot of dense information. Of course, the trick is to make the complicated seem effortless and spontaneous.

  Daniel Clowes

  Effort, Complicated, Spontaneous

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

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• Film is a director's medium, and a film set is a complicated military structure - I have to keep reminding myself to stay in my place, or all will burst into chaos.

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  Military, Chaos, Film

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• You have to find the tone of the piece and modulate that. There are ways to indicate that - I try to incorporate the biggest range I can within the story, going from humorous to serious without it being jarring. That's the hardest part, to keep that balance. It requires being constantly aware of where you are in the story. You can't really do that in a movie: You can't slightly modulate the tone by the way the character's eyeballs look in one certain scene.

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  Humorous, Balance, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The greatest moment of my life was, somebody sent me a cable-access show from Chicago that had Joey Ramone on it showing the video we made together. And he was talking about, like, "This guy Dan Clowes postponed his wedding for us. He's a great guy."

  Daniel Clowes

  Guy, Together, Moments

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It keeps me moving when I see people doing stuff that I see as "my" direction. I think, "Oh, it's been tainted. Now I've got to do something new." There's nothing worse than working on your own stuff and thinking that someone else is following you along.

  Daniel Clowes

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• All I can say on the Guilford story - and this comes more from my perspective as a father than an artist - is for parents and administrators to give so little value to the career of a public-school teacher - to allow him to be cast aside without exhausting every avenue to resolve the issue - is an obscenity worse than anything I've ever drawn in my comics.

  Daniel Clowes

  Teacher, Father, Artist

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie. I say this as someone who would rather read comics than watch movies, listen to music, anything. But it's not an operatic medium. I hear other people talk about being moved to tears by comics. I can't imagine that.

  Daniel Clowes

  Moving, People, Tears

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think a comic looks better in the magazine. The colors are designed to be on paper, not illuminated on screen. I don't like the aspect of people reading it for free. When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously. But I don't know. I'm sure 10 times more people are reading it online than in the actual paper.

  Daniel Clowes

  Reading, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's hard to tell if anyone's interested in reading a serialized story. But it's interesting to put in a cliffhanger each week. That was popular in old comic strips. They'd write a weekend story different from the daily strip. So people follow one story day to day, and a separate story on weekends. If you read them, you think "I'll read two more." Then you're like "I gotta find out!" And you read 500 more.

  Daniel Clowes

  Reading, Writing, Weekend

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

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• I'd always wanted to do a weekly strip, or a strip that was in installments like that. It's been fun trying to figure out how to make that work. Their standards are so prissy that they won't allow me to use all kinds of language. Not only can you not swear, this morning I was informed I couldn't use the word "schmuck." I couldn't use "crap," "schmuck," or "get laid." Those three were beyond the pale. But you get around that, and it comes out better. I can't quite explain why.

  Daniel Clowes

  Morning, Fun, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Writing screenplays is very freeing from what you can do in comics in a lot of ways. You can change things around. I can take great delight in writing 40 pages, then just pressing delete and getting rid of it and not thinking about it ever again. Whereas in comics, if I had put that kind of effort into it, I couldn't go on.

  Daniel Clowes

  Writing, Thinking, Effort

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

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• Writing a screenplay, I'm like, "All I'm responsible for is that final script, and I take great effort and pride in that." But once I give it to someone to make, I can disassociate with it entirely and not worry that my vision isn't being represented, because I understand fully that that's not how it works.

  Daniel Clowes

  Writing, Pride, Giving

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

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• I've had a real lucky time working in Hollywood. I've talked to other screenwriters, and they're all kind of beaten down and their spirits are crushed, because they work on these screenplays and these projects, and then directors either take them and change everything, rewrite them and make them worse, or they film them and they're nothing like how they imagined it to be.

  Daniel Clowes

  Real, Down And, Directors

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

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• 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.

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  Character, Opportunity, Reality

  Source: www.avclub.com

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