Dave Morris Quotes

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

The experience of reading a printed comic book will never change, but now, thanks to the digital age, there are many different ways to enjoy the same story. Digital comic books, of course, can be interactive in many different ways, allowing the reader to feel like a participant in the story.

I've been trying to make this argument that digital comics and print comics are both art, but there are subtle differences.

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion.

I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize.

Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.

Comics are a dying art. If you ask a little kid to choose between a video game with insane graphics or comic books... you have to compete with cable, satellite TV with its thousands of channels, and with video games that are like movies, with CGI explosions where you can blow up worlds.

I've been involved in lots of comic book stuff; I've done numerous films based on comic books and TV shows.

Comics, as good as they might be, they didn't know much about performance. There aren't too many comics you could watch for an hour without getting tired. They might have good material, but it's about theater to me.

Graphic novels and comic books, by and large, as you know, have cover art, and they have interior art. The interior art is never as detailed as the cover art.

I grew up really into comic books, and I actually thought I was going to be a comic-book artist. That was my ambition before I realized I couldn't keep characters looking the same from panel to panel.

'Spawn' was my favorite growing up, but I loved 'X-Men' and the 'Hulk' too.

Comics and animation have some of the deepest stories I've ever seen.

We don't have a superhero culture. Comic books and superheroes are part of American culture. We have 'Amar Chitrakatha,' etc.

I grew up in the 1970s and early 1980s, loving comic books, and they were much cartoonier. And then everything became super dark and muscular and airbrushed, and I stopped collecting comics.

When I read comics, they were dense stories. When you put them down, there was a sense of having gotten a great deal from them.

I'm not ashamed of comic books. You have some people that are like, 'We're trying to elevate comic books.' Comic books have always told great dramatic stories.

Comic books and films have a lot more in common than, say, comics and books or films and books. The two art forms, to me, seem like pretty close siblings.

People underestimate the complexity of comic books.

I'm always interested in using comics in different ways.

I just love the comics industry.

I love what Max Landis is doing with 'Superman: American Alien.' That's a really good book.

'The Blue Dragon' uses very filmic language and involves a lot of technology. It is more cinematic than theatrical and was inspired by comic strips and graphic novels.