Bill Sienkiewicz Quotes

But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it.

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.

There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will.

I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants.

But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.

So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.

So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different.

One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much.

People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to.

I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.

And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.

I still love a lot of the guys who just paint.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.

Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects.