I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
“I will be the biggest, richest, most popular writer in history. You just watch, dead reader. I'll be the biggest whore ever!” — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn't satisfying, but to actually draw our own world - it's… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
It's hard to tell if anyone's interested in reading a serialized story. But it's interesting to put in a cliffhanger each week.… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols. The reader reads into them something worse than what you normally would have. They… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Writing screenplays is very freeing from what you can do in comics in a lot of ways. You can change things around.… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
My feeling is that it's one of the very few things that comics can do that you really can't do in any… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Writing a screenplay, I'm like, "All I'm responsible for is that final script, and I take great effort and pride in that."… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I lose faith in everything else, but rarely in my work. If I start to get bored, I change it to make it more… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Surely comics require more effort on the part of the reader than movies or television. I'm always learning new things you can do with… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Though to the average person that you'll meet on an airplane, if you tell them you draw comics, they'll still have sort of the… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user! — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
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… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
When I go back and reread the stuff, I'm always floored by how deeply personal and revealing it actually is. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted to do a weekly strip, or a strip that was in installments like that. It's been fun trying to figure out… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
You have to find the tone of the piece and modulate that. There are ways to indicate that - I try to incorporate the… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
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… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
