Todd McFarlane Quotes

• I guess
  we're all just wired different. I just got to the point where I got tired of
  people telling me what I can and can't do in my life.

  Todd McFarlane

  Tired, People, Different

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• But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion.

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  Fashion, Artist, Trying

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• I want to go to my grave a free man. Surviving against giants-that's victory.

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  Men, Survival, Victory

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• Once again your mind explodes with a searing pain. A floodgate of memories bursts wide. Yet it is her face that keeps haunting you. Always her face. Who is she? Then things begin to crystallize. You remember your funeral. Begging and pleading for someone to release you from the darkness. You're not dead. You can't be. Then you feel her presence. Warm, caring, soothing. But somewhere deep inside she feels empty now. She has no reason. No meaning. No soul. But your soul lives. While her's is dying.

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  Life, Pain, Memories

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• I got sort of disinterested in working for the system.

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  Disinterested

  Interview with Helen Keier, www.ign.com. February 10, 2000.

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• I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done.

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  Tired, Artist, People

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• If your motives aren't clean, money itself becomes evil. But When we don't have money enough evil, the world tells us we're losers. So what determines our place in society is not how much kindness is in our hearts but how much evil is in our wallet.

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  Kindness, Heart, Evil

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• Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.

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  Artist, Years, Guy

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• As much as we stereotype the women, we do it with the guys. The guys are all good looking, not too many ugly superheroes. They’ve all got their hair gelled back. They have got perfect pecs on them. They have no hair on their chest. I mean, they are Ryan Gosling on steroids. Right? They are all beautiful. So we actually stereotype and do it to both sexes. We just happen to show a little more skin when we get to the ladies.

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  Beautiful, Sex, Mean

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• Obviously Spawn was at the top of the charts at that point so you get a lot of opportunities.

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  Artist, Opportunity, Spawn

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. January 24, 2006.

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• Batman is easily my most favorite character beside Spawn.

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  Character, Spawn, Favorite Characters

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• To me, I was always just standing on the sidelines because up until issue 50, we were just doing Spawn. I wasn't recruiting anybody because I didn't have any books for people to work on.

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  Book, Artist, Issues

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• If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig.

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  Cute, Artist, Funny Things

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• Ive been fortunate to come on places where the question isnt why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didnt anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

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  Scratches, Fortunate

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• The deal is that you can do it, you don't really owe me anything, but at the end of it, I own the film. Then I can actually go out and reprint or not reprint if it I want.

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  Artist, Want, Film

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• I don't belong. Not here. Not now. I have to get back there. The bet was rigged, he made me believe. Now there's darkness in my soul. I want to die . . . again. But I choose to come back, why?

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  Believe, Soul, Darkness

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• Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities.

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  Artist, People, Different

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• About 85 percent of what you see is just because I get on the phone and [say], 'Let's go do this'. I don't do any market research or test groups or focus [groups]. I just go, 'It's my company; would I buy it, personally?'

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  Phones, Focus, Groups

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• The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take that into Hollywood. The fallback is we're going to DVD anyways. We've got that covered.

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  Couple, Artist, Dvds

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• Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it.

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  Artist, People, Scare

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• I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.

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  Book, Artist, Ink

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• Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time on. I'm usually on the Nickelodeon site, coloring with my little five year old or something.

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  Children, Years, Three

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• I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.

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  Artist, Guy, Creepy

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• I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush.

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  Book, Writing, Artist

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• I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success.

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  Artist, Long, Legs

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