People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it's one written in a very strange and complex way.
A lot of people want what I would call sci-fi; people want television to be what they think the world should look like. That is different than what I do.
Some people compare Spike Spiegel to Dirty Harry, and they're both antiheroes. But Spike is an extension of myself.
Once I found out the secret of the universe. I have forgotten what it was, but I know that the Creator does not take Creation seriously, for I remember that He sat in Space with all His work in front of Him and laughed.
I take it as a given that God's knowledge of the Cerebus storyline dwarfs my own as God's knowledge of everything dwarfs my own.
With 'The Chi,' it's me observing my own city and also pulling some things from themes I've dealt with in my life.
But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
I'm incredibly proud of the show 'Portlandia' that I do, but it's designed for an audience that just wants that and loves that.
Everybody expects you to be qualified to talk about your films, but in a way, you're the least qualified person to talk about them. When you're finished, you don't watch them at all.
I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
