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I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

Daniel Clowes

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Daniel Clowes
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 14
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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.
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I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.
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Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.
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Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!
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I think a comic looks better in the magazine. The colors are designed to be on paper, not illuminated on screen. I don't like the aspect of people reading it for free. When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously. But I don't know. I'm sure 10 times more people are reading it online than in the actual paper.
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I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.
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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.
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If you think about it enough to have a really articulate answer, you're not doing it right. That's how I feel about art. If your thought process could take you to knowing exactly what you're doing and why, there would be no point in making the art. It would become like propaganda. It's more nebulous than that.
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I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.
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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.
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