“When I go back and reread the stuff, I'm always floored by how deeply personal and revealing it actually is.” StuffRevealing Author:Daniel Clowes
“There are certain things in there that no one else would recognize, really. I see details of my life that I didn't even intend to put in when I was doing the work. For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in The Death-Ray is based on somebody I went to high school with.” KidsSchoolCertainExampleHigh SchoolDetailsRays Author:Daniel Clowes
“Often I'll do research just to get a time period correct, but I didn't have to for the '70s... I feel like I can close my eyes and still see it so clearly.” FeelsStillsI CanEyePeriodsResearchTime Periods Author:Daniel Clowes
“December is the most difficult month. Medications for insomnia or depression go up during the month of December. A lot of people who experience loss feel that loss magnified in December. Everybody seems happy and you feel all alone. You're not all alone.” PeopleFeelsSeemsDifficultLossMonthsInsomniaDecemberMedicationAll Alone Author:Max Lucado
“Something I always wanted to do, to capture that later half of the '70s. It's like the early half of the '70s is still the '60s, in that there's still kind of a playfulness and inventiveness in terms of design and the things that were going on in the culture. The second half, it got much more commodified. It's possibly the ugliest era of architecture and clothes and design in the entire 20th century, from 1975 to '81 or '82.” KindStillsWantedCultureTermHalfCenturyDesignClothesArchitectureErasCapture20th CenturyPlayfulnessInventiveness Author:Daniel Clowes
“I feel like a lot of my aesthetic was in response to feeling the awfulness and cheapness of that [ the 70'th].” FeelsFeelingsResponseAestheticCheapnessAwfulness Author:Daniel Clowes
“One of my weekend hobbies is to go look at old houses when there are open houses around here. Just to go look at the architecture. And you can see how many houses were built around 1977, the year where everyone said, "Let's put in these aluminum windows instead of beautiful hand-made wood ones."” YearsLooksMadeSaidHandsBeautifulHouseBuiltWindowWoodsArchitectureWeekendHobbiesAluminumOld Houses Author:Daniel Clowes
“Every movie really does have a message. Somebody somewhere is trying to make a point or advance a cause or promote their agenda. There's nothing wrong with that. They try to do so in an entertaining fashion.” TryingDoeCausesFashionMessagesAgendasEntertaining Author:Max Lucado
“I don't get the impression that most sources of media - like television and movies - are trying to get out a positive message, necessarily. My impression is they're trying to get a message out that promotes their personal opinion, position or belief and they're trying to do something that makes money. They want to turn a buck.” WantTryingTurnsBeliefOpinionMediaPositionTelevisionSourceMessagesImpressionMaking MoneyBucksPersonal OpinionsPositive Messages Author:Max Lucado
“The wonder of a free-market society is that we can all do our best to package our message in an entertaining fashion and present it - and then everybody votes with their footsteps.” WonderFashionMessagesVoteEntertainingFree MarketPackagesFootsteps Author:Max Lucado