Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes

I think your average fan probably just assumes that the same person directs every episode of their favorite series, week in and week out.

Well, it was very interesting to play a character and stretch it over such a long time - 12 episodes. I had never done a TV show before, so week to week it was unclear what we would be asked to do.

With everything that I've done with YouTube and podcasts for so many years, it's been: you can record it, edit, and then upload that day. With the book and documentary, it's been such a longer process.

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

You know, a TV show is a slow build.

I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.

I was on 'The Shield' for a year before 'Crash' came out, and it was like doing an independent film every week.

I would love to be on a really good show and share all the stuff that goes into creating a big TV show and get my audience into it. I think that makes it personal and makes the audience feel like they're a part of it.

I was not creating icons when I wrote the 'The X-Men' and the 'The New Mutants.' I was creating people.

The simplicity I felt hearing the script of 'Panchayat' was so good. I came back home with such a happy feeling, I wanted to work on the show immediately.

After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.

I'd hate to be writing 'Adventure Time' comics and not be excited about it.

We try lots of stuff. We throw it against the wall, and the stuff that sticks stays in the movie.

I watched 'The Wire' religiously.

Doing a series of 'Facejacker' takes about nine months. It's pretty intense.

You need actors and performers, but there has to be content in a film.

Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

To be honest, when I was writing these stories a million years ago, I never thought about movies at all one way or another. It would have seemed almost miraculous for these things to be movies someday. To me, they were just comic books that I hoped would sell so I could keep my job.

I'm used to doing comic books, where every month there's a new comic book! I find that the movie business is not quite the same. It doesn't move quite as fast.

I'm a natural behind the camera... My attentions are more toward behind the scenes, more toward creating, producing, and directing what's going on here... When I finally do pop in front of the lens, I'm genuinely glad and relieved to be there.

But what I've also really liked about it is that it not only has Marvel set about... if they just were slavishly trying to bring the comic books to life, literally, I don't the movies would work, because it's different to see something on screen in three dimensions with actors, and they kind of, I believe, are constantly trying to find a way to absolutely respect the source material and at the same time, transform it into something that works and that you believe on screen.

In the first season (of 'Californication'), when we had the threesome with the nipple clamps, I was, like, 'I don't get this, I don't know how you're gonna do it.' And then, all of a sudden, there's a crane with a camera hanging over our heads, and you're, like, 'Okayyyyyyy. But how are you gonna sell this? How are you gonna make it work?' And they ended up shooting it brilliantly, cutting it together, and it just all ended up working without me having to compromise my own personal morals.

We [with Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa] wanted to draw people in with a dialogue - whether it's a creative process or a social issue or innovation of some kind; whether it was how we told the stories or what stories we told. We produced some online videos.

We couldn't get it off the ground as a film, but then we begin to think television, and Lowell pushed it out there and Jim and Nick were anxious to do Hap and Leonard anyway, and I had worked with them before, so it was a perfect story. I love the series. I hope there's a second.

The writing is always the easy part, provided I can get the good material. It's the getting of the good material that's a challenge.