Joe Madureira Quotes

I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an existing story, is immensely exciting, terrifying and ultimately rewarding.

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.

For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.

Rarely do I try to pull a creature out of life and make it a character.

I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.

We pulled them [ Bink & Gollie] out of our feeble little brains.

There's no game plan when it comes to thinking up new characters; inspiration can come from anything - from a wig I've seen to an expression I've heard someone use.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

I love using my imagination. I love writing about animals.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.

Novels will remain my meat and potatoes, what sustain me imaginatively.

It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day they are there. They're alive, and they're whispering in my head and all that stuff, and I want to write about those things.

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

As with anything, you need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep the character interesting.

I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'

A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.

Every creative story is different. And yet every creative story is the same: There was nothing, now there is something. It's almost like magic.