Bill Sienkiewicz Quotes

"Cartooning is an honorable thing."
- Bill Sienkiewicz

"So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Being)

"I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Want)

"I still love a lot of the guys who just paint."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Love)

"I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Want)

"For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: states, World)

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

"I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Work)

"Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Life, Blood)

"I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Books)

"But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Reading)

"But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Expression)

"But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Work, Want, Will)

"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."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Fact)

"And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Want)

"And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client."
- Bill Sienkiewicz

"After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Art, Being, School)

"Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: May, Style)

"People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: People, Journey)

"To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across."
- 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 in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Love, Work, Computer, Day)

"There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Movies, Work, People, Want)

"That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: People, Learning, Will)

"So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Magic, Service)

"So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Mind)

"I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff."
- 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
(Related: Truth, Exaggeration)

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

"One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Movies, Problems, World)

"Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Committee, Media, Nothing)

"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."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Being, Film)

"Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Work, Funny, Vision)

"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."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Corporate, May)

"If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it."
- Bill Sienkiewicz

"If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special."
- Bill Sienkiewicz