Daniel Clowes Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Daniel Clowes Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
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
I've felt that in the past, where I just felt like I had to keep drawing in the same way to maintain this sameness and rhythm throughout an entire book, and it was not really necessary.— Daniel Clowes
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
The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist ... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean ...— Daniel Clowes
I never feel there's anything I can't do.— Daniel Clowes
When I go back and reread the stuff, I'm always floored by how deeply personal and revealing it actually is.— Daniel Clowes
Maybe what I really wanted, I began to think, was a stronger sense of fellowship ... I thought about my friends and about how I didn't have any ...— Daniel Clowes
Writing a screenplay, I'm like, "All I'm responsible for is that final script, and I take great effort and pride in that." But once I give it to someone to make, I can disassociate with it entirely and not worry that my vision isn't being represented, because I understand fully that that's not how it works.— Daniel Clowes
Something I always wanted to do, to capture that later half of the '70s. It's like the early half of the '70s is still the '60s, in that there's still kind of a playfulness and inventiveness in terms of design and the things that were going on in the culture. The second half, it got much more commodified. It's possibly the ugliest era of architecture and clothes and design in the entire 20th century, from 1975 to '81 or '82.— Daniel Clowes
In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.— Daniel Clowes
I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.— Daniel Clowes
Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.— Daniel Clowes
For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.— Daniel Clowes
I've had a real lucky time working in Hollywood. I've talked to other screenwriters, and they're all kind of beaten down and their spirits are crushed, because they work on these screenplays and these projects, and then directors either take them and change everything, rewrite them and make them worse, or they film them and they're nothing like how they imagined it to be.— Daniel Clowes
I think I have a very clear vision of what I want things to look like.— Daniel Clowes
It's much more liberating as a artist to feel like you can approach each page and each panel with the way that inspires you the most. I think the thing that bogs down a lot of artists is that you're kind of stuck drawing in a style you've developed.— Daniel Clowes
Every couple of years or so, when Daniel Clowes releases a new book, one can almost sense the rectal contraction across the collective seat of our humble profession.— Chris Ware
I don't read much of anything online.— Daniel Clowes
Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers— Daniel Clowes
I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.— Daniel Clowes
I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.— Daniel Clowes
I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.— Daniel Clowes
I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.— Daniel Clowes
My feeling is that it's one of the very few things that comics can do that you really can't do in any other medium. I feel like the reader accepts all of these styles, and after a certain point you can flip the pages and see a character rendered very differently than you saw on an earlier page, and it's not jarring. It suggests things that you can't suggest just in the writing or in the plotting.— Daniel Clowes
You were right, everybody hates my new car. Becky said it was a goth dorkmobile.— Daniel Clowes
That's been my main interest for the last 15 years, is to really make sure the story and the characters take precedence over everything else, and that I give them everything I can to make them exist as actual people.— Daniel Clowes
Please allow me the honour of allowing you to bestow upon me a blowjob.— Daniel Clowes
I feel like a lot of my aesthetic was in response to feeling the awfulness and cheapness of that [ the 70'th].— Daniel Clowes
C'mon, let's go in my room and abuse drugs and stuff!— Daniel Clowes
I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.— Daniel Clowes
Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable.— Daniel Clowes
At a certain point, I realized that I could draw anything, and there was nothing I should avoid - I could make it work. That's opened me up to being able to be much more comfortable telling any kind of story.— Daniel Clowes
It was one of those rare moments where life delivers on the promises offered by Hollywood ... I just stood there and watched her disappear like the pathetic, 'romantic' coward I was (and still am, I guess) ... In a way, it was a perfect moment— Daniel Clowes
everything I had been waiting for ... People like me probably don't want anything to actually happen to them anyway ...
I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.— Daniel Clowes
I think if you had different artists approaching the material in different styles, that's very different. I think it's an interesting thing to discover, what's present in the work even when you're shifting the styles. I've just found it a much stronger way to work.— Daniel Clowes
You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.— Daniel Clowes
I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.— Daniel Clowes
I started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn't satisfying, but to actually draw our own world - it's like controlling your own dreams.— Daniel Clowes
If I could have somehow been the kind of artist who could crank out two or three issues a year, that's different. That's sort of what it's all about, to get this thing out so that there's some kind of continuity. But to do a comic book every year or two was just so anti-climactic.— Daniel Clowes
I originally just wanted to be an artist.— Daniel Clowes
Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!— Daniel Clowes
There are certain comics that just seem like they have this perfect balance between dialogue and image that I can't not read. I'll want to save it for later, and the next thing I know, I'm reading it. That's what I'm kind of trying to do with my comics.— Daniel Clowes
Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.— Daniel Clowes
This is the Mona Lisa of bad diners.— Daniel Clowes
Writing screenplays is very freeing from what you can do in comics in a lot of ways. You can change things around. I can take great delight in writing 40 pages, then just pressing delete and getting rid of it and not thinking about it ever again. Whereas in comics, if I had put that kind of effort into it, I couldn't go on.— Daniel Clowes
God, it drives me crazy when I know exactly what I want and I can't find it anywhere! It's like does anybody want my money!? I mean what the fuck!?— Daniel Clowes
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
The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities.— Daniel Clowes
That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.— Daniel Clowes
As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."— Daniel Clowes
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
Usually when I put together a book like this Death-Ray hardcover or that Ghost World special edition, then I have to reread it and see if there is anything I want to change or any re-coloring I want to do. That's when I'm faced with the actual work. When I'm working, I'm too close to it. I'm sort of inside, and I can't see it at all. So when I have that experience of rereading it years later, it's jarring.— Daniel Clowes
That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!— Daniel Clowes
In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.— Daniel Clowes
People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.— Daniel Clowes
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
Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.— Daniel Clowes
I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.— Daniel Clowes
I think there was a point that I realized I could do what I wanted to do in terms of the drawing. I used to run around a lot of things. I would shy away from certain things that I realized would be horrible for me to draw, and just wouldn't be fun.— Daniel Clowes
You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes?— Daniel Clowes
Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.— Daniel Clowes
I try personally not to be nostalgic.— Daniel Clowes
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
Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.— Daniel Clowes
Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them ... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!— Daniel Clowes
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
You're the type of guy who always snaps at some point and becomes a mass murderer!— Daniel Clowes
But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.— Daniel Clowes
- ... before I was going to college, my secret plan was to one day not tell anybody and just get on some bus to some random city and just move there and become this totally different person.— Daniel Clowes
- Then what?
- ... and not come back until I had totally become this person ... I used to think about it all the time ...
- I don't get it ...
- That's because you don't uterlly loathe yourself
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
I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.— Daniel Clowes
Pussey, you're worse than a hundred girls!— Daniel Clowes
More and more, I tried to make comics in the way I like to read comics, and I found that when I read comics that are really densely packed with text, it may be rewarding when I finally do sit down and read it, but it never is going to be the first I'm going to read, and I never am fully excited to just sit down and read that comic.— Daniel Clowes
Bring me your Nortons, your Kramdens, your housewives, and sewermen.— Daniel Clowes
Weight my limbs with the nests of your flotsam, that we may chirp in chorus this melancholy anthem.
Mourn with your busdriver piety this sapless husk;
dull with your tender hymn the string of the lumberman's axe.
I will be the biggest, richest, most popular writer in history. You just watch, dead reader. I'll be the biggest whore ever!— Daniel Clowes
I can look at my early work and see what a pained struggle it was to draw what I was drawing. I was trying so hard to get this specific look that was in my head, and always falling short.— Daniel Clowes
For a moment, all movement ceases and the scene is one of crystalline stillness, silent except for a slow, melodramatic heartbeat.— Daniel Clowes
Nobody else feels the same way about your dog that you do.— Daniel Clowes
Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.— Daniel Clowes
I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.— Daniel Clowes
So what have you guys been up to?"— Daniel Clowes
"Nothing, worshipping Satan.
I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.— Daniel Clowes
But they always just laugh off everything I say, when really I want absolutely nothing more than to destroy the world they live in and to watch them suffer, alone and miserable, trying to live in my world for a change!— Daniel Clowes
I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's a very freeing thing.— Daniel Clowes
Dear Josh, we stopped by to fuck you but you didn't answer the door. Therefore you are gay.— Daniel Clowes
Sincerely, Tiffany and Amber.
One of my weekend hobbies is to go look at old houses when there are open houses around here. Just to go look at the architecture. And you can see how many houses were built around 1977, the year where everyone said, "Let's put in these aluminum windows instead of beautiful hand-made wood ones."— Daniel Clowes
I knew how to draw all of the different smokestacks on the old trains and all that stuff, and then I realized that if I can draw trains, which is the thing I was probably the least interested in in the world at the time, I can do anything and find a way into it that will be interesting.— Daniel Clowes
I believe in the transformative power of cinema. It is only through this shared dream-experience that we can transcend the oppressive minutiae of daily existence and find some spiritual connection in the deeper reality of our mutual desire.— Daniel Clowes
I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.— Daniel Clowes
Why aren't you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?— Daniel Clowes
Often I'll do research just to get a time period correct, but I didn't have to for the '70s. I feel like I can close my eyes and still see it so clearly.— Daniel Clowes
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
He always accuses me of trying to look'cool', I was like, 'everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.— Daniel Clowes
I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.— Daniel Clowes
I think that gulf is what makes the work interesting, but as a creator it's endlessly frustrating because I'm starting out with this goal, this thing I'm trying to create, and then the thing I actually do create is very, very different. It's always painful, in some ways, especially when it's just finished.— Daniel Clowes
When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.— Daniel Clowes
I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.— Daniel Clowes
Maybe I'm just sick of putting more into this friendship than I get out of it.— Daniel Clowes
It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.— Daniel Clowes
I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.— Daniel Clowes
