“Would you rather see a super soldier battling Nazis or something more serious? Or lesbians down a coal mine? Generally, the films are engaging in the same way as the comics are. It's no coincidence that the biggest movies are genre-related, whether it's Lord of the Rings or comic books.” WayBookFilmLordMinesSeriousSoldierRingsComicGenreRelatedComic BookCoincidenceNaziCoalEngaging Author:Mark Millar
“I do everything I watch, whether it's like a big comic book film that I've done or something very serious and raw.I do have that initial feeling like I'm the worst, this is awful, my work is - I've let everybody down. I definitely have that.” BookDoneFeelingsBigsFilmWatchesWorstSeriousAwfulComicComic BookInitials Author:Eva Mendes
“I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.” YearsBookDreamKidsWantedNovelHellChildhoodPositionSeriousDrawsYeahComicFinding YourselfAdolescenceComic BookGraphicCollectorsGraphic NovelsUnfulfilled DreamsHell Yeah Author:Anthony Bourdain
“Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like a comic book but when you start making it, for some reason the film gets very serious.” BookReasonFilmTurnsCasesSeriousScriptsComicComic Book Author:Dagur Kari
“Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.” BookCountryPlayFansSeriousReaderChessComicCanadaHockeyComic BookHockey Fan Author:Louis Dudek
“It always sounds kind of trivial, but when I was a kid I was always so impressed by how serious the comic books were. I always liked how they were half way between literature and the cinema. I liked the visuals and I liked the simplicity of a certain type of moral dilemma.” WayKindBookKidsCertainLiteratureSoundHalfMoralSeriousTypeSimplicityComicCinemaVisualsImpressedComic BookDilemmaHalf WayMoral Dilemma Author:Walter Hill
“What is interesting is that John Lewis actually got interested initially in the civil rights movement because of a comic book. So part of it, he's paying homage to this tradition that you can tell serious stories and talk about serious issues in graphic form.” BookInterestingSeriousTraditionCivil RightsComicComic BookGraphicCivil Rights MovementHomage Author:Daniel H. Pink