Jim Woodring Quotes

I make films to explore concepts and raise questions, not tell the audience what to think.

Any established media, such as literature, music, or film, offers a wide variety of experiences touching emotions from the very primal to the deeply complex. No matter who the audience are or what kind of mood they are in, there will always be something right for them. Video games, as a fast-growing new medium, is on its way to catching up.

I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.

Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me.

I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

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

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

Fiction is socially meaningful.

I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money.

Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.

I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.

I started out as a novelist, and I think novels have gotten a little stiff, a little repetitive, and the energy in comics was much more appealing.

You can go through comic strips alone and study the common man. You can trace our history.

As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.

I'm always a little nervous when someone comes from other media into writing comics. It's a unique storytelling form, and it requires both talent and respect.

It's absolutely chilling to think that I've been working on a comic-book series called 'Optic Nerve' since I was sixteen.

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.

As an artist, I am here to get involved in meaningful films. But that does not mean only films like 'Arabikkadha' should be made. If you give an overdose of such films, the subject will become jaded.

I love the writing process. It's something that I'm interested in personally and something I always do on every movie.