Dave Gibbons Quotes

I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different world.

The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

I've always said that what cartoonists do is create friends for readers.

I'm a big fan of 'Akira,' and I think comics are a great place to tell intelligent, fantastical stories. You can say stuff that you wouldn't be able to in other mediums.

When you go to the movies, you expect the movie to create a world that you can immerse yourself in, that you can step into. Sci-fi is a beautiful way of doing that.

I don't think it's a coincidence that comic books appeal so strongly to children. Not that it negates any of their power for adults, but there is something about comics that makes them a perfect storytelling system for children.

One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I'm reading about look like.

Because even very young people are expert readers of pictures, you can convey very complex and subtle messages through pictures that you'd need loads of words to explain. Making a picture book is also a bit like making your own film - and you can make anything you want happen, however impossible!

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.

My first influences were superhero artists.

When I have a book I enjoy, I'm partly in the book. I'm not just observing it.

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

If you want to believe in the fantasy on screen, then you have to believe in the characters and use them as a stepping-stone to lead you into this fantasy world.

I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that's real. If it's consistent, if it's entertaining, if it's interesting, it justifies its being there.

So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

Comics have always been storyboards.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.