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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
Daniel Clowes
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Daniel Clowes
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 14
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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
It keeps me moving when I see people doing stuff that I see as my direction. I think, Oh, it's been tainted. Now I've got to do something new. There's nothing worse than working on your own stuff and thinking that someone else is following you along.
Daniel Clowes
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 enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols. The reader reads into them something worse than what you normally would have. They work as this outburst of incoherent anger. I've found ways to write around swearing that are much more effective, rather than going for what someone really would say.
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
Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!
Daniel Clowes
I lose faith in everything else, but rarely in my work. If I start to get bored, I change it to make it more interesting. I try not to take it too seriously, but I also try to never cheat or hurry things along.
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I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
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'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
The greatest moment of my life was, somebody sent me a cable-access show from Chicago that had Joey Ramone on it showing the video we made together. And he was talking about, like, This guy Dan Clowes postponed his wedding for us. He's a great guy.
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
I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.
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 always looking for things I imagine must exist, but don't - this is usually the impetus to create that thing myself.
Daniel Clowes
In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
Daniel Clowes
I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.
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
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.
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