Quotes By Daniel Clowes

In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.