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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
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Daniel Clowes
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 14
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Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable.
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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.
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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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But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.
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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.
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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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I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
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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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