I don't really think that very much is interesting about the superhero as an archetype. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
My main point about films is that I don't like the adaptation process, and I particularly don't like the modern way of… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
There's nothing that could get me interested in Hollywood again. And, increasingly, there's nothing that could get me interested in the American… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I'm very pessimistic about adaptations from one medium to another. I've got a very kind of primitive, Puritan view of it. I… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
There's always been this feedback between comics and films. But I think that if you take that analogy too far, if you… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Everybody is becoming [a superhero]. In the past I've tried to say, 'Look, we are all crappy superheroes,' because personal computers and… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I've no objection to the term 'graphic novel,' as long as what it is talking about is actually some sort of graphic… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Perhaps in the process of reconstructing its corporeal form, this new and wholly original entity achieved a complete mastery of all matter;… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“It seems as if from being a novelty nine-day wonder, the super-hero has become a part of American life. It's here to… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“He had one room above a thrift store. He had a trunk of books by Ayn Rand. He was short-sighted and reclusive,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I don't really have any great interest in writing for movies. Comics, to me, is a much more promising field. There's still… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Come, dry your eyes, for you are LIFE, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Above, great constellations wheeled to which our bonfire sparks ascended in their tiny mimicry” — Alan Moore Copy Share Image