Bill Sienkiewicz quotes
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“After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.”
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“I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff”
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“But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will”
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“But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression”
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“But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube”
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“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”
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“Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision”
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“So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration”
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“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”
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“So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe”
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“And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.”
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“There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.”
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“Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.”
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“I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.”
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“So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.”
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“Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident”
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“Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something”
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“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”
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“If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it”
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“Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story”
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“And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client”
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“It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed”
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“I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants”
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“To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach”
-- Bill SienkiewiczSource : "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.
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“If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special”
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“I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar”
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“I still love a lot of the guys who just paint”
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“I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work”
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“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”
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“And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say”
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“For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States”
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“Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects”
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“To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.”
-- Bill Sienkiewicz
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