Quotes About Comic

Her description of her method of work has been quoted over and over again by her critics, and I suppose it is no more ironic that this serious bit of self-depreciation should be taken au pied de la lettre than that her comic ones were.

neither of them could match Stanley Kubrick's success in rendering the genre so utterly cinematic. Doctor Strangelove (1964), A Clockwork Orange (1971) and, especially, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) demonstrate a darkly comic vision and a suspicion of technology counterpointed by a determination to explore the formal limits of filmmaking and its apparatuses.

Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games.

I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.

With the 'Watchmen' comic, we attempted to tell it in an accessible way. I deliberately made the artwork very clear, deceptively so. You think you're sucking on a sweetie, but it turns out to be a sugar-coated chili.

It seems like they make every comic book into a film. 'Watchmen' is my favorite of all time.

The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Gotham City,' you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; 'Watchmen' comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism.

Indeed, the hype around 'Watchmen' is its curse. If you want to enjoy the comic for what it is, ignore the attributions of literariness and the novelistic pretensions with which some critics have imbued it. This isn't high culture, and it doesn't pretend to be. It's good, juicy pulp fiction with a little nuclear apocalypse thrown in.

During the day, I was a doctor. At night, you know, I was a comic. And it was really just to let off some steam. It just became my golf, you know, in many ways. Most doctors have golf as a hobby. Mine was doing comedy.

I usually played comic lovers or losers - weak, ineffectual men.

I got a call from my manager saying, 'Howie Mandel wants to talk to you.' And I'm a comic - big fan of all he's done. He was pitching me 'Caraoke Showdown', and I was just excited about it.

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I'm disgustingly earnest.

I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.

I'm excited to play any character that is based in reality. And I'd be even more excited if I can add a comic element to my role.

A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor.

I have always had a need for attention but didn't plan to be a comic.

For me, the reason to make the movie is that if people like the comic, then people would like the movie if it was well made. There are good movies for them, but very few. And I mean that in a true sense. If they love your story for freaking 30 years, then they can do a movie about it.

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.

I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

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

I had never seen a Marvel comic.