Takashi Miike Quotes

I love written books and novels, but I really love graphic novels and comic books!

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

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.

There's no limitation on comics, nothing. From a logical standpoint, how can there be a limitation on comics? You can use any word in the dictionary. You can put them in any order you want to. You can use a vast variety of illustrating styles. People could do all sorts of things.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

Simply put, I'm glad that manga as an expressive form is expanding.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.

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

I love writing novels, but there is something deeply invigorating about the comic-book medium.

Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning didn't become a major art. There's a reason for that. People don't know how to deal with drawings.

People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of 'Watchmen' as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form.

There are a lot of Chinese comics, but the Chinese comics tend to be more historical and conservative. Japanese culture, just the comics are amazing. They're like films: very few words; they move so much in these books with hundreds of pages.

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.

We really lived, ate, drank and slept Batman - ideas, characters and stories.

Cartoonists create so many cartoons on any given topic that we can follow the life cycle of a comic idea and how it evolves over time more quickly than we can with a form like the novel.

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!

There's a creative freedom to comics, and a fulfillment I get out of panel layouts and storytelling that is hard for me to get anywhere else.

I love comic books and I love anime.

Some of my favorite media is the still cartoon that you can sit and study. You can get amazing metaphors across really quickly. I'm in awe of a Charles Schulz.

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.

My works were not - and they still aren't - single panel gags with a punch line underneath them. I like a lot of those cartoons; I just don't draw them.

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.