Bill Sienkiewicz

You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.

— Bill Sienkiewicz

There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.

— Bill Sienkiewicz

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar

— Bill Sienkiewicz

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision

— Bill Sienkiewicz

If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special

— Bill Sienkiewicz

Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin…

— Bill Sienkiewicz

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States

— Bill Sienkiewicz

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

— Bill Sienkiewicz

Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.

— Bill Sienkiewicz

Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one…

— Bill Sienkiewicz

One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the…

— Bill Sienkiewicz

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it

— Bill Sienkiewicz

I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants

— Bill Sienkiewicz

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say

— Bill Sienkiewicz

To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece…

— Bill Sienkiewicz

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will

— Bill Sienkiewicz

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you…

— Bill Sienkiewicz

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something

— Bill Sienkiewicz

So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my…

— Bill Sienkiewicz

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

— Bill Sienkiewicz

But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression

— Bill Sienkiewicz

Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects

— Bill Sienkiewicz

And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.

— Bill Sienkiewicz

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff

— Bill Sienkiewicz

People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very…

— Bill Sienkiewicz