Brian Michael Bendis Quotes

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• Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesn’t exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to what they say, listen to how they say it and listen to what they do not say. Surprise yourself. Scare yourself.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Writing, People, Wish

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• The trick is not caring what EVERYBODY thinks of you and just caring about what the RIGHT people think of you.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Caring, Thinking, People

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• Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Art, Journey, Monkeys

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• I didn't know why I was coming to this room. Someone just told me to go to Sam Raimi's office. I knew that I uniquely had the comics version of his job, which was to take Spider-Man and put him into the modern day. But I thought, "Maybe he wants to tell me to cut it out." So I come in, it's in his office, and then Stan Lee comes in, and I'd only ever met Stan as a fan, not as a professional. And then they sit us down on a couch, and roll in an AV cart with a TV on it and go, "We're going to show you the first cut of Spider-Man."

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Jobs, Cutting, Men

  "Jessica Jones’ creator on the biggest change from comics to her Netflix show". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. June 29, 2016.

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• This is something I learned when I was working at a newspaper: when you put something on paper, whether it's words or pictures, and it's staring back at the reader, they are now alone in the room with them for as long as it takes them to turn the page. Whereas on television, the images fly by.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Long, Television, Paper

  "Jessica Jones’ creator on the biggest change from comics to her Netflix show". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. June 29, 2016.

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• If you loved everything you were writing, you would be deluding yourself or a complete and absolute narcissist. It's not about liking what you write, it's about improving with every word, little by little, exploring your craft, becoming the artist you hope to be one day. And you can only do that by working at it every day. It doesn't happen overnight, it doesn't happen over a weekend, it is a lifelong pursuit.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Book, Writing, Weekend

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• You're as good as the people you're with.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  People

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• In my mind jealousy would come with seeing people do something that makes it all look extremely easy when it's not, like artists who can draw better than I can. In college, I was different. I was so hungry that anyone else who was published - I couldn't deal with it.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Artist, College, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Book, People, Peers

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2007.

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• Before the TV show of Jessica Jones, the response to Miles [Morales] is so overwhelming, and so constant, and it's been five years now. I can't even express to you how powerful it is on my end. It's overwhelming how much it was needed, that I didn't know that's what was needed.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Powerful, Years, Tv Shows

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• I have a very strong color theory, for instance, where in 'Powers,' green means powerless, and red means power.The story was all there, but I was desperate to make sure that extra level was the case.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Strong, Mean, Color

  "Jessica Jones’ creator on the biggest change from comics to her Netflix show". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. June 29, 2016.

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• The other cool thing is, even with Jessica [Johnson], or Daredevil, I had taken a break from those characters for a while in the comics, so I can enjoy the shows without the agita. I completely love the Daredevil show. I feel no physical connection to it, because it was 10 years ago since I wrote that comic, so I can just enjoy it. And when people connect it in a positive way to me, I go, "Well, that's very f - king flattering!"

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Kings, Taken, Character

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• The only damn thing I ever learned in all my years in art school was a piece is never done, it is just finished. You have to trust your inner voice, your instincts, when they tell you pencils down. And you roll up your sleeves and you start over again.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Art, School, Years

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• The one thing that Jessica [Johnson] and Miles[Morales] have in common is that there's a great many people in the audience who were desperate for that kind of material. They didn't say anything, didn't tell anybody.

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  People, Say Anything, Common

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• If you're miserable and someone flies by looking like they have everything in the whole world and it's never going to be you, that's tough to deal with.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  World, Tough, Miserable

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I was on the set of the first Powers pilot, and an actor of color came up to me and said, "When I was a kid, my friends wouldn't let me play Batman or Superman, because I wasn't their color. But they would let me play Spider-Man. And that's the difference." And I realized I had heard this story a hundred times from different people, but I wasn't there in my head yet.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Kids, Men, Differences

  "Jessica Jones’ creator on the biggest change from comics to her Netflix show". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. June 29, 2016.

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• I've been reading Ed Brubaker comics since the first appearance of Ed Brubaker comics and every single time he announces a new title I mutter to myself: ugh! I wish I would've thought of that!

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Reading, Wish, Titles

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• The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic, and that's fine. The overall meaning is what matters.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Fun, Drawing, What Matters

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• One of the things I like to do is people's hearts are on their sleeve, whether it's a good or a bad heart. And I think that's one of the things living in a world with Powers would do: it's too theatrical not to express yourself constantly. It would change them socially and sexually, everything would be altered because of superheroes.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Heart, Thinking, People

  "Jessica Jones’ creator on the biggest change from comics to her Netflix show". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. June 29, 2016.

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• It also helps that what Dan Slott is doing with Peter Parker in the comics has elevated him to something else, so that Miles Morales at the moment is the more traditional Spider-Man figure in the universe: the high school student trying to balance high school and superheroics, and he can't catch a break. That was Peter's role, but it's not his role anymore, and it's Miles' role. That was given to me, and it's pretty cool.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  School, Men, Balance

  "Jessica Jones’ creator on the biggest change from comics to her Netflix show". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. June 29, 2016.

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• I looked at Tank Girl, which is the coolest comic, ever. The movie didn't make the comic book any less cool. The comic is still the comic.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Girl, Book, Tanks

  Source: collider.com

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• The books are the books, and a lot of the stuff is some version of your id or your ego.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Book, Ego, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• I'll never get sick of raising my children, but other people might get sick of them.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Children, People, Sick

  Source: collider.com

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• But you have to look at your work with an honest critical eye. Work on the things that you need work on. Scare yourself. Surprise yourself. If you don't like the way it's going, you have complete control over changing the course. That's one of the best things about doing this.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Book, Eye, Scare

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• I never look at things again once they're done.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Looks, Done

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