Kofi Kingston Quotes

More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies.

I get inspiration from movies, from fashion, then completely random things you'd never think of.

Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

There's a lot of possibility in the 'Pacific Rim' universe for additional stories to be told, whether that's additional graphic novels or animated series or video games or movie sequels.

I was never a comic-book fan, but I loved cartoons. I don't enjoy reading: for me, it's hard work.

I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.

For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.

Oh yeah, I grew up with comics. You know, I always like to describe myself as a 'narrative junkie.' I love novels, I love comics, movies, TV. If it's a good story, I'm hooked.

I have been as influenced by music and films as by books.

I never read comics as a kid. I guess I was lazy and watched cartoons instead.

I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

The way people love sci-fi is how I love cartoons.

We musicians often get inspiration from films and books or photographs, not only by music.

I can't turn hip-hop off, just like I can't turn comic books off. It blends into everything for me.

When I was very young, even before I went to what you call elementary school, I used to read and watch Japanese comic books and anime all the time. These were the seeds of my future.

I believe that comics are entirely for entertainment.

Movies were the biggest influence on me when I was a kid.

I can get inspired, like anyone, from movies or music or TV or a certain way people think.

Comic books are just a way to show a story. Then there are the movies, and television and exhibits like this that take the stories and make them seem so realistic. In the comic book, you're just reading a story - hopefully a good, exciting story that whets your appetite for all of this stuff to come.

Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines.

I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as game and TV addicts, but lots of people spend lots of time patiently reading through hundreds of pages of dense prose. I think reading a comic by comparison is a lot more immediate.