Daniel Clowes Quotes

The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.

There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work. When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film. I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place.

I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.

I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

I don't think it's right to define films as commercial or art house. What's important is that a film evokes a certain emotion when it's being watched.

It's cool if people want to make movies of stuff, but I'm really interested in the comics.

I don't know why people see the things that they do. I wouldn't pay to see them, they don't touch me or move me in any way.

I know when I watch certain actors or if I watch Thom Yorke sing on stage, I'm affected by it emotionally. I guess that's what we are all striving for in art but that's such a beautiful thing that happens between two people that may never even meet. So when you do get to meet someone who was affected in that way, it's awesome.

Something you can do in a comic that you can't do in a film is that you can have thought bubbles.

I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they don't talk about the paintings. They end up telling me the story of their life or how their father died.

What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive.

There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.

I don't really have any great interest in writing for movies. Comics, to me, is a much more promising field. There's still a lot of ground to be broken in comics, whereas movies, to a degree... I don't know. They're a wonderful art form, but they're not my favorite art form. They might not even be in the top five of my favorite art forms.

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.

My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy.

I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate these basic human emotions.

I think that music is still a mystery to most people. It kind of goes through most people without a specific thought. They feel the music, which is what's supposed to happen. They're not supposed to be curious about who wrote the music; they're supposed to feel what the show is trying to get them to feel. So if I help get that feeling across, that's good enough for me.

Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.

The thing that I enjoy about being an actor and the thing that I enjoy about the arts in general is the ability to make the audience feel an emotion that they weren't intending to feel before they went in.

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.