Daniel Clowes

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

— Daniel Clowes

I try personally not to be nostalgic.

— Daniel Clowes

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

— Daniel Clowes

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

— Daniel Clowes

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

— Daniel Clowes

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

I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.

— Daniel Clowes

Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.

— Daniel Clowes

“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

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to…

— Daniel Clowes

Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.

— Daniel Clowes

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

— Daniel Clowes

I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols. The reader reads into them something worse than what you normally would have. They…

— Daniel Clowes

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would…

— Daniel Clowes

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie. I say this as someone who would…

— Daniel Clowes

That's been my main interest for the last 15 years, is to really make sure the story and the characters take precedence…

— Daniel Clowes

It's much more liberating as a artist to feel like you can approach each page and each panel with the way that…

— Daniel Clowes

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

Film is a director's medium, and a film set is a complicated military structure - I have to keep reminding myself to…

— Daniel Clowes

In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for…

— Daniel Clowes

Alfred Hitchcock talked about planning out his movies so meticulously that when he was actually shooting and editing, it was the most…

— Daniel Clowes

I'm usually the last to see my influence in other people's work. People give me stuff and say "Oh look, this guy's…

— Daniel Clowes

“It was one of those rare moments where life delivers on the promises offered by Hollywood... I just stood there and watched…

— Daniel Clowes

I've had a real lucky time working in Hollywood. I've talked to other screenwriters, and they're all kind of beaten down and…

— Daniel Clowes

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

All I can say on the Guilford story - and this comes more from my perspective as a father than an artist…

— Daniel Clowes

I used to use cigarettes to indicate somebody's an outsider a lot. It gave character a seedy, disreputable, almost suicidal quality. Now…

— Daniel Clowes

If you think about it enough to have a really articulate answer, you're not doing it right. That's how I feel about…

— Daniel Clowes

“You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.”

— Daniel Clowes

I feel like a lot of my aesthetic was in response to feeling the awfulness and cheapness of that [ the 70'th].

— Daniel Clowes

Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.

— Daniel Clowes

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.

— Daniel Clowes

When I go back and reread the stuff, I'm always floored by how deeply personal and revealing it actually is.

— Daniel Clowes

“You're the type of guy who always snaps at some point and becomes a mass murderer!”

— Daniel Clowes

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this Ghost World comic book in my head as I'm working.

— Daniel Clowes

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!

— Daniel Clowes

I'm always looking for things I imagine must exist, but don't - this is usually the impetus to create that thing myself.

— Daniel Clowes

In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the…

— Daniel Clowes

I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

— Daniel Clowes

I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.

— Daniel Clowes