James Gunn Quotes

I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first story - about my dog, of course.

I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.

I have written stories since I was a child.

I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid.

When I was young, I drew as often as I wrote.

I was writing a lot even as a kid.

Since when I was little, I would always write a script and tell my sister, 'Read this line. I'm going to film it.'

People called me Cilla when I was little because I was always singing and writing poems.

The more ways you can tell a story and paint a picture, the better it is.

I've always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I liked to pair my artwork with writing. And so that naturally led to drawing comics.

As a kid I used to always write these stories... some of them were really cute; some of them were kind of crazy.

I've always, always, always listened to music since I was, like, 7 years old and made up stories in my head based on what I was hearing.

I used to write random little stupid things when I was five, but then the first song I really wrote was one called 'Fingers Crossed,' which is on SoundCloud.

My favorite thing to do as a kid was pretend I was in the opening credits of a sitcom. As the theme song would play, I'd look up at the imaginary camera and smile as my name would flash on the screen.

I saw 'Beauty and the Beast' at eight years old in theatres and spent hours trying to recreate the majestic imagery of that story in a drawing notepad at home.

I was writing fantasy as soon as I could hold a pen.

I started writing really early on, and my brother Jordan was my first audience. I would come up with scary stories to tell him at bedtime.

Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.

I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write.

I've been obsessed with television since I was 7 years old, and I've always been writing on some level.

When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child.

Writing is not my forte, but I am good at visualising.

My very first story, I was around 5, and I really just wrote myself. When I was 5, I loved myself so much I gave myself a twin named Tomi. Everything started out fine. But then I didn't write another black character until I was 18.