Tite Kubo Quotes

I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic.

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.

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.

The writing process isn't something I'm in love with. I'm an illustrator who writes.

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel.

To be an animator you have to be able to tell stories but I'm not very verbal - I definitely do it through pictures.

I just wanted to make video games.

Animation wasn't my love, but drawing was. I loved drawing, and when it came time to graduate from high school, I looked around and it was like, "Wow, I don't really want to study math. I don't really want to study science. I don't really want to study literature. Is there a place where I can go and draw cartoons?"

I love very much to draw animals.

Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It's the same thing with filmmaking... everybody has a great idea for a movie, but do you have the stamina to get good at your craft and deal with how heartbreaking it is?

Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies and TV. I'll go back to plays. Even if I crash and burn there, I'll write a novel. That's the great thing about writing is that you don't have to wait for people to give you permission to do it.

I want to do what I love, which is act, and hopefully through that, leave a positive impact somehow, someway, with somebody.

Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books.

You can write a script, but that's just a starting point as a cartoonist. The heart of the process comes when you start to draw it, and you work out how to lay the page out, how best to tell the story.

I've love the challenge of doing something new. Bollywood is magical.

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

I love 'Sunday in the Park with George.' I saw that when I was just, just starting theater school, and I remember singing 'Finishing the Hat' or at least reading the lyrics to 'Finishing the Hat' and other songs from 'Sunday in the Park with George' to my mom to try to explain why I wanted to be an artist.

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.

This is what I've always wanted to do ever since I was a little girl. Coming from dance and theater and what was accessible to me in my hometown, it was all I did after school and on the weekends. The idea of making my hobby into my job was the ultimate quest.