Quotes by Mike Mignola - Page 1

No rain but thunder, and the sound of giants.
Mike Mignola / Artist
Giants
Rain
Sound
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Don't mess with me, lady. I've been drinking with skeletons.
Mike Mignola / Artist
Don't Mess With Me
Drinking
Skeletons
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I've always been much more comfortable with drawing fantasy stuff.
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Drawing
Fantasy
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I don't do anything for Halloween. I carry Halloween inside of me.
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I'm thinking about color all the time. Sometimes even as far back as the plotting sequence.
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Sequence
Plotting
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Okay, I know I said I wasn't going to shake things up, but we're going to have to get some pants on this one.
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Okay
Pants
Said
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But if there must be an end, let it be loud. Let it be bloody. Better to burn than to wither away in the dark.
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Dark
Ends
Loud
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Lady, I was gonna cut you some slack, 'cause you're a major mythological figure...but now you've just gone nuts!
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Cutting
Gone
Nuts
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The more I see of the movie business, the less I understand about it. I have no idea what goes on with that stuff.
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Movie Business
No Idea
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The idea of a Frankenstein-like creature is something I've done several times. It's such an icon of the horror scene.
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Creature
Icon
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I've painted in the past, but I only average about one painting a year, and the last painting I did, I actually really liked.
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Average
Liked
In The Past
Painted
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I wish I could say I had any idea what I was doing when I designed characters. I just take things I like and make my version of it.
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Character
Wish
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With a rasping cough, the vampire shakes its head. "It was you who called us. All of you, with your war. The roar of your cannons shook us from our quiet graves.
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War
Quiet
Vampire
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Hellboy was entirely the comic I wish someone much more talented than I was doing, because I would have been a huge fan of that comic. But nobody was doing it, so it fell to me to do it.
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Comic
Wish
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When I started the 'Hellboy' series way back when, I wasn't really thinking consciously about the humor, but Hellboy does have my personality, and that's an important part of my personality.
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Humor
Series
Important Part
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I don't do costumes, I don't do sh_t like that. I love Halloween as a concept, but do I actually go out and do things? No. Trick or treating? Pain in the ass. Hate answering the door all night long. I do love fall, which is bad because I live in Los Angeles.
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Falling In Love
Hate
Pain
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When the first 'Hellboy' series came out, in the same batch of fan mail I got a letter from somebody from the Church of Satan, and I got a letter from a minister, and they both liked it. And I thought, 'What am I doing that I'm making both these guys happy?'
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Church
Fan Mail
Mail
Satan
Series
Batch
Liked
Letter
Minister
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Since the beginning of the world, a prayer is a prayer and a curse is a curse-- no matter the people-- no matter the language-- Man has given a thousand different namesto his god, but look into the face of each one-- long enough-- hard enough-- You will find one truth.
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Men
Long
Prayer
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My struggle over the years has constantly been, it only takes 10 minutes, or an average shower, to come up with a mini-series or two, but it takes a year to draw them. So for me, it's been just trying to find a way to get all these ideas and all these incidents on paper.
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Average
Incidents
Shower
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I do think there's a difference when you see a book where you can tell the creator's doing something they really love or are really passionate about as opposed to an artist or a writer who is just doing a particular job or trying to sell a product or trying to cash in on a popular trend.
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Cash
Creator
Love Doing See
Trend
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There's a ton of stuff in mythology and folklore that is loaded with wonderful creatures that I haven't drawn yet, but that's kind of my retirement plan. Theoretically, I won't be doing comics any longer, and I'll just be drawing and painting whatever the hell I want. Most of that will be monsters.
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Drawing
Folklore
Loaded
Monsters
Mythology
Retirement
Drawn
Just Be
Theoretically
Ton
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I hadn't seen 'Bride of Frankenstein' until high school or maybe even later than that. It's really one of the great movie experiences where you think you know what it's going to be, but it's so much weirder and so much better than anything you could've imagined. It's so full of these striking, powerful images.
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Frankenstein
Great Movie
Images
Striking
Weirder
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My Hellboy is modeled on my father in some ways: a guy who's been in the Korean War, and he's traveled, and he's done a lot of stuff, and he's kind of got a been there, done that attitude. He's also been in the world. Del Toro's change was to have Hellboy bottled up in a room and mooning over the girl he can't have.
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Traveled
Bottled
Modeled
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My thumbprint is on every single thing that happens with Hellboy. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do professionally, letting someone else draw the main Hellboy comic. He's so much mine. But I still have no intention of ever handing over the writing of the main Hellboy comic to someone else. That character is my baby.
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Baby
Character
Writing
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I've just always liked monsters, since I was a little kid. It was always the thing I found interesting. It's always what I wanted to draw; it's always what I wanted to read, and so, yeah, I don't know. It's a good question for a therapist, why I like monsters. But I tend to not question it. It's what pays the bills, so that's kind of nice.
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Bills
Little Kid
Monsters
Good Always Know
Therapist
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Baltimore was never intended to be anything other than this original novel that Chris Golden and I did together. There was never any thought of this thing going on and becoming a series. If there's any common thing between these characters, it's that they weren't anything I was seeing in comics. Almost everything I've done is something I wish somebody else was doing, because it's what I'd like to read.
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Together
Wish
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What keeps this industry alive is creators doing their own work. Once you change a costume or origin enough times, it's a dead body - you're just electrocuting it and keeping it sort of shambling on. There is a lot more creator-owned stuff now, and some of it I look at and go, 'Oh, that's his pitch for a TV show. That's his pitch for a movie. That's him saying oh, this kind of thing sells.' I didn't do that.
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Tv Shows
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My daughter is reading various Young Adult vampire stuff, and I ask her, "Is there even a bad vampire in the story?" There's always a good vampire now, but do any of them sleep in coffins? And I would bring her down to my library and say, "Here's every classic vampire literature. There are coffins, there's this, there's that," you know? "When you get to the YA stuff, you may try some of this stuff just to see where it came from."
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Daughter
Reading
Sleep
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Things do look pretty grim, but I think there are more laughs in Hellboy in Hell than there are in B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth. I think Hell is getting nicer and Earth is getting worse. Once we figured out what we were doing, the whole point of the Hellboy/B.P.R.D. stuff has always been evolution. The kind of evolution we're seeing on Earth is nasty evolution - part of this kind of evolution is that you have to wipe out what was there before you can replace it.
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Earth
Laughing
Thinking
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I look at all of world mythology and folklore as my toy to play with. There are just so many characters and creatures there I want to put on paper. It's a really exciting thing for me to take material that I really love and put a new coat of paint on it and present it to this audience. And I don't have to make up any of the characters. I can just pull a book of mythology off the shelf and say, "I'll use this guy." I also hate making up names for fantasy characters. I'll just flip through these books and say, "Wow, this is way crazier than anything I could make up".
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Hate
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