Nobody else feels the same way about your dog that you do. Daniel Clowes More Quotes by Daniel Clowes More Quotes From Daniel Clowes 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 spontaneouseffortcomplicated I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line. Daniel Clowes linesvisiongiving When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do. Daniel Clowes meanfallthinking I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s. Daniel Clowes beatslittlestelevision Though to the average person that you'll meet on an airplane, if you tell them you draw comics, they'll still have sort of the same response - not like that's seeped into the culture at large, that comics are not just for kids. Daniel Clowes airplaneaveragekids I don't read much of anything online. Daniel Clowes online For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with. Daniel Clowes rayskidsschool I never feel there's anything I can't do. Daniel Clowes i-canfeels In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer. Daniel Clowes whimablerunning I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me. Daniel Clowes internetinteresting Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online. Daniel Clowes onlinereaderbook I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid. Daniel Clowes gunkidsthinking Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie. Daniel Clowes would-bewaymoving Certainly it's great to be able to talk to your friends about something. They might mention a film, and you can find all about it, and you don't have to wait months until you can find a book that might cover the subject and keep it in your head. You can have that kind of immediacy. But there's also something about it, where all the knowledge seems kind of fleeting. All the stuff I learn about in that way, I can be interested in for a day and then it's gone. Daniel Clowes waitingstuffbook I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing. Daniel Clowes embarrassingmade I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult. Daniel Clowes difficultlittlescharacter I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people. Daniel Clowes politetypepeople You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something good. Daniel Clowes illustrationwantneeds I have cultivated a little crew of people whose opinions I understand. It's like the way you'd follow certain film critics because you know what their criteria are, and you may not agree with them, but you can glean from their opinion how you will feel about a film. Daniel Clowes film-criticspeopleway I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age. Daniel Clowes fluidityrealage
