On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable. Alan Moore More Quotes by Alan Moore More Quotes From Alan Moore Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful. Alan Moore awfulsimple It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet. Alan Moore closetsskeletonsjumping I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline. Alan Moore stuff-happenseverydaybelieve I sat on the bed. I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to make it look like a spreading tree, shadows pooled beneath it, but it didn't. It looked more like a dead cat I once found, the fat, glistening grubs writhing blindly, squirming over each other, frantically tunneling away from the light. But even that isn't the real horror. The horror is this: in the end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness. Alan Moore catlightreal The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Alan Moore lackingevent-horizonreason The superman exists and he's American. Alan Moore We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors. Alan Moore horrorheavenlong The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians. Alan Moore movementtalkingart I don't really have any great interest in writing for movies. Comics, to me, is a much more promising field. There's still a lot of ground to be broken in comics, whereas movies, to a degree... I don't know. They're a wonderful art form, but they're not my favorite art form. They might not even be in the top five of my favorite art forms. Alan Moore brokenwritingart I'm very pessimistic about adaptations from one medium to another. I've got a very kind of primitive, Puritan view of it. I tend to think that if something was derived for one medium, then there's no real immediate reason to think that it's necessarily going to be as good or better if adapted into another one. There have been very good stage plays that have made some very good films. But there are not so many differences between the theater and the cinema as there are between the cinema and, say, reading a book or reading a comic. Alan Moore realreadingbook I doubt that there are many screenplays of movies that either of us have seen over the past 10 years that were first drafts, or were the work of purely one person. In my world, the actors and the director are all made of paper, and they do exactly what I say. I feel much more in control of the finished work. I feel like the statement that I'm making - even though it's in a medium by no means as glamorous or as widely recognized as film - is at least the statement that I wanted to make. That's a lot more important to me than the allure of working for Hollywood. Alan Moore doubtmeanpast There's always been this feedback between comics and films. But I think that if you take that analogy too far, if you only see comic books in terms of films, then eventually the best we can end up with is films that don't move. It would make us a poor relation to the movie industry. Alan Moore bookmovingthinking The only real reason that I'd have for working for Hollywood is the fantastic amounts of money involved, and that isn't enough of an incentive to really give up the degree of control that I have over my work at the moment with comics. I suppose that's probably why I don't have any designs on being a screenwriter. Alan Moore designgiving-upreal I've always wanted to explore characters of all races, all genders, all ages. It just seems to me to be a natural way to approach any kind of storytelling. Alan Moore raceagecharacter I think I'm a bit like a kind of shark, that if I stop swimming, I won't be able to breathe, something like that. Alan Moore sharksswimmingthinking In countries like the U.S. and Great Britain, we exist in a wholly sexualized culture, where everything from cars to snack food are sold with a healthy slathering of sex to make them more commercially appealing. Alan Moore snackscountrysex If you're using sex to sell sneakers, then you're not just selling sneakers, you're selling sex as well, and you're contributing to the sexual temperature of society. Alan Moore sneakerstemperaturesex The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information. Alan Moore informationnarrativedifferent When I hear alcoholics talk about having their demons, I think that they're probably absolutely literally correct. Alan Moore alcoholicsdemonthinking I think if you were to sever the connection between arousal and shame, you might actually come up with something liberating and socially useful. It might be healthier for us, and lead to a situation such as they enjoy in Holland, Denmark, or Spain, where they have pornography all over the place - quite hardcore pornography - but they do not have anywhere the incidence of sex crimes. Alan Moore connectionssexthinking
