41 Quotes by David Rees

The thing that was interesting to me about Relationshapes – as opposed to most of the other cartoons I’ve ever made – was I knew when one worked and when one didn’t work, but I couldn’t really explain it.

I hardly ever use pencils. I’m left-handed and it’s really messy if you’re left-handed because of the graphite smudging. I use them more now than I used to because there’s, like, 15,000 pencils all over my house.

I was just worried that someone was gonna think that I had been commissioned by Jamba Juice to make cartoons about Jamba Juice. And the big thing for me was – if I’m not getting paid to sell out, I don’t want people to think that I’m selling out.

I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.

I hate self-publishing; it’s a real drag and it takes up a lot of space.

The way you make money is to do something you don’t like to do. And that’s how you know you’re a virtuous person.

I started sharpening pencils at the census and how that was a difficult time in my life because my marriage was ending and I had quit cartooning and I didn’t know what to do with myself.

I’m interested in the structure of art and how it works. And the content is also interesting, but I don’t want to keep the same structure and just plug in new content every week.

Talking about my personal life onstage, I’ve realized I’m not one of those comics who can do that. I can allude to it but I don’t want to be a confessional performer...