Garry Trudeau Quotes

It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.

I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.

Once you find what you like, it's like it worked yesterday, it works today, it'll work tomorrow.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life.

Films are not meant to be watched only by fans but by everyone. Fans are those who like what we do. When we do things that only they like, then we are becoming their fans.

If you're going to draw a comic strip every day, you're going to have to draw on every experience in your life.

Big movie or small movie, you make this thing, and then you show it to people, and you just hope they like it. You hope it works.

I am one of the lucky ones, to work with comic giants.

I don't look to save the world with any of the movies that I make. I'm not trying to make any political statement with the movies I make. I'm trying to have a good time. I'm trying to entertain people.

Consistency is a beautiful word.

We went through an era of big dance records, an era of hip-hop being the biggest thing on the planet. The people who really break through are the people who are not afraid to express themselves in how they feel.

Making surf films for a living isn't my business anymore, so it's really more of a way to get creative and have a lot of fun with it.

It's about consistency.

Cinema is not Bible writing. It doesn't teach you morals, good values to live. Cinema is not meant for that. If you're looking at cinema that it'll tell you good values then you're mistaken.

I don't want to make silly videos.

I try to play the same way, play the same way over a longer period of time.

Moving pictures can be and will be new and fresh and exciting as long as there are ideas and talent in the world.

A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself.

It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent and this is simply something that has to be assisted all the time by physical and mental habits or it dries up and blows awayOf course you have to make your habits in this conform to what you can do. I write only about two hours every day because that's all the energy I have, but I don't let anything interfere with those two hours, at the same time and the same place.

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.