Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
I think animation can tell more than live action.
In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.
Lots of movies don't kind of work as well as they do on the page.
Whereas there are lots of good novels out there; there are a few good movies out there. People have been writing great poems for years, but there aren't a lot of good comics. I like trying to write them.
The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever.
You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.
Luckily with animation, they give you a lot more leeway than a live-action show.
Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film's final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made.
When you get into making movies, then the physical mundane reality of life must be presented. But in comics you can jack it up and work in shorthand.
I have a very low tolerance for animation. I'm used to the perfect integrity you get from drawing your own comics. There's something about that that animation always loses.
If you can talk about it, why paint it?
I think the radio is kind of cool, because you're really free to do whatever you want, because you can go into another world. Whereas in TV, you have to make that world.
A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.
You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.
I've really grown to love film, but I think occasionally you need to get up on a stage and see what's going on.
I think theatre is an actor's medium, while cinema is a director's medium.
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.
I think we seem to remember things in still pictures. I never gave up on painting. When they said painting was dead, I just thought, Well, that's all about photography, and photography's not that interesting, and it's changing anyway.
Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things.
I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
