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Think 8 hours, work 2 hours.
I dont want to write, Id rather draw.
Bring me a horse and I am yours forever
I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.
We have to reserve the right to bomb the niggers.
I feel I do what I love, and the fools pay me for it.
Our society's need for escapism has always interested me.
England have nothing to lose here, apart from this test match.
Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon.
If this bloke's a Test match bowler, then my backside is a fire engine
I've always been a liberal and I've always had strong socialist leanings.
I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.
I've gotta believe in what my heart tells in me, even if it's a fake thing.
I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
I was told I make intelligent comics, and then I made a comic about a horse that pooped.
All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.
I love Apocalypse Now because it's a war movie, but yet it's not really a movie about war.
There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here.
And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
If we can't get more John Rovnaks in this world, let's all support the John Rovnak we've got.
The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture.
You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.
We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.
It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.
I'm fortunate to be able to draw in different styles, but each style demands another approach from the previous.
If you pretend you're completely mad, people believe it. The only thing I wanted when making the film was to have fun.
Wimbledon is getting a bit too like Royal Ascot. It's not what happens or who wins so much, as what clothes do I have on.
We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from.
Do you know how much power I have over you? Yes, you, the one just sitting there hitting the f5 button day in and day out!
What do I think of the reverse sweep? It's like Manchester United getting a penalty and Bryan Robson taking it with his head
You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.
I stopped doing comics because I found the pressure really high to nail it every time. It's really difficult to be creative all the time.
I did with my wife a comic book for the Raynham Hall Museum in Long Island. They sell the book every single time a busload of kids comes in.
The movie [Chicken with Plums] is very delicate, and you need to have people around you that understand what you're doing, otherwise it doesn't work.
We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D.P., a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would have made a shitty movie.
V is like a mythical situation. It's an allegory for what could happen. V has philosophies within it that actually warn against things like that happening.
I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.
I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
Harvey Publications hired me as a letterer, and they found out six seconds after I got the job that I couldn't letter. I still can't letter. So, they hired me to draw.
Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up in the morning and leave your house and go somewhere.
He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.
I really believe in the power of comics as an educational thing, even ones as silly as mine, because they're a gateway to the actual thing. They're like an easy entrance.
They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.
I love Taxi Driver. When I saw it the first time, I didn't understand it, but I loved it because I thought the guy was really cool when he's talking to himself in the mirror.
I wanted to reinvent horror comics. I felt like it was my mission to open people's eyes to the fact that horror comics could be so much more than the popular perception of them.
We [with Marjane Satrapi] both have very strong personalities, but that's completely normal, because even if you're very well prepared, you never know when you shoot live action.
I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.
I love the idea of making drawings and seeing them become real. It's really like heaven to be able to draw something and then see it as a reality, even strange moments such as fire.
I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.