“Usually when I put together a book like this Death-Ray hardcover or that Ghost World special edition, then I have to reread it and see if there is anything I want to change or any re-coloring I want to do. That's when I'm faced with the actual work. When I'm working, I'm too close to it. I'm sort of inside, and I can't see it at all. So when I have that experience of rereading it years later, it's jarring.” IfsWorldWantYearsI CanBookTogetherSpecialGhostRaysRereadingGhost World Author:Daniel Clowes
“Alfred Hitchcock talked about planning out his movies so meticulously that when he was actually shooting and editing, it was the most boring thing in the world. But drawing comics isn't like shooting a movie. You can shoot a movie in a few days and be done with it, but drawing a comic takes years and years... That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.” WorldWantYearsDoneStuffMorningBedBoringDrawingPlanningComicShootingEvery MorningEditingHitchcockBoring Things Author:Daniel Clowes
“I started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn't satisfying, but to actually draw our own world - it's like controlling your own dreams.” WorldWritingStoriesDreamAgeYoungDrawsDrawingSatisfyingYoung Age Author:Daniel Clowes
“I knew how to draw all of the different smokestacks on the old trains and all that stuff, and then I realized that if I can draw trains, which is the thing I was probably the least interested in in the world at the time, I can do anything and find a way into it that will be interesting.” IfsWorldWayI CanDifferentStuffCan DoInterestingDrawsTrainI Realized Author:Daniel Clowes
“I think politics has an influence on my work now, perhaps more so than when I was a childless young man, but I hope never to deal with these kinds of issues in anything more than a covert manner. I'm more interested in figuring out what I think than in pronouncing my views to the world.” ThinkingMenWorldKindInfluence Author:Daniel Clowes
“You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes?” MenWorldTryingMeanDoeChristChanceHellFourBillionsOne ManBetter Place Author:Daniel Clowes
“But they always just laugh off everything I say, when really I want absolutely nothing more than to destroy the world they live in and to watch them suffer, alone and miserable, trying to live in my world for a change!” WorldWantTryingSufferingWatchesLaughingMiserableAbsolutely Nothing Author:Daniel Clowes
“I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.” ThinkingWorldLittlesKidsFantasyGunRaysLittle KidErase Author:Daniel Clowes
