85 Quotes by Bill Sienkiewicz

It’s interesting, because in the corporate stuff there’s a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed.

But I’m aware of the fact that I’m working in a commercial venue where I’m producing something that I wouldn’t normally be approaching the way I’m doing it.

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

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

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

Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident.

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

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.

But with comics you’re reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.