I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not my primary concern when I start a story. Grant Morrison More Quotes by Grant Morrison More Quotes From Grant Morrison The 'medium' is unaware of its attractiveness, that's all. Everyone loves comics. I've proven this to my own satisfaction by handing them out to acountants, insurance brokers, hairdressers, mothers of children, black belts, pop stars, taxi drivers, painters, lesbians, doctors etc. etc. The X-Files, Buffy, the Matrix, X-Men - mainstream culture is not what it once was when science fiction and comics fans huddled in cellars like Gnostic Christians dodging the Romans. We should come up into the light soon before we suffocate. Grant Morrison stars christian mother Remember it's all just a mirror we made to see ourselves in. Grant Morrison mirrors made remember I write constantly, so it flows from one project to the next, and I would edit everything endlessly if I had the chance. I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires. Grant Morrison flow knowing writing He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato. Grant Morrison potatoes medical progress Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real. Grant Morrison real running children Only nothing is impossible. Grant Morrison nothing-is-impossible impossible And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death. Grant Morrison ends people way Hell changes constantly but there are certain consistent landmarks which always stay in the same relation to one another. Grant Morrison landmarks hell change I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence. Grant Morrison guy clever thinking Actually, it's as if [Superman is] more real than we are. We writers come and go, generations of artists leave their interpretations, and yet something persists, something that is always Superman. Grant Morrison generations artist real It's stupid, I know, but I care. All the things that meant so much when we were young. Under the blankets late at night, listening to long-distance radio. All those things lost now or broken. Can you remember? Can you remember that feeling? Perhaps I ought to go to a doctor. Grant Morrison distance stupid night Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation. Grant Morrison intelligent witty talking Abandon the 'I', because it's a lie. Grant Morrison abandon lying Imagine the earth’s population of six billion people reduced to just one hundred representatives. Statistically, that makes 30 white, 70 non-white. It means 6 people own 59% of the wealth and they all live in North America. 80 are in substandard housing. One has an education. One owns a computer. Don’t blame me if it all sounds crazy. Grant Morrison crazy white mean Sometimes I pretend not to look at my own characters, because that's like different people getting off with your girlfriend or something. Grant Morrison girlfriend character people And when it's all done, when there's no one left you'll come back for me. And tell me who I am and why I have to do what I do. And explain 'Eternity.' You'll come back Grant Morrison who-i-am eternity done I plan years in advance, but I like to leave enough space in the narrative scheme to change things, because I always get my best ideas the closer I come to the end of a project, after I've lived with it for a while. Grant Morrison space years ideas I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires. Grant Morrison ongoing done knowing A comic will always be more 'personal' than a DVD or CD, both of which require electronic 'players' to decode their content. With comics, the reader is the player so the engagement with the material is always more fundamental and dynamic. Reading comics is a much less passive activity than consuming CDs and DVDs. Grant Morrison dvds reading player It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban life at the end of the twentieth century...He creates himself each day. He sees himself as the lord of misrule and the world as a theatre of the absurd. Grant Morrison theatre perception may
