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" Cartooning is an honorable thing. "
Cartooning
Thing
Honorable
" For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States. "
World
Comics
States
" I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants. "
Want
Took
Constrained
" If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special. "
Somebody
Really
Me
" If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it. "
Going
Deal
You
" I still love a lot of the guys who just paint. "
Who
Paint
Still
" It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed. "
Essence
Because
Safe
" I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff. "
Explore
Complete
Because
" I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work. "
Work
Black-And-White
How
" I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced. "
Say
Want
Point
" I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar. "
Top
Books
Enough
" Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision. "
Funny
Baker
Work
" Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident. "
You
Film
Look
" Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something. "
Media
Committee
Driven
" One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much. "
Too Much
Problems
Movies
" People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to. "
Respond
Journey
You
" So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration. "
Truth
Honorable
Me
" So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different. "
Me
Look
Looks
" So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing. "
Missing
Because
Amazing
" So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe. "
Being
Safe
Pushing
" So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic. "
Service
Magic
Story
" That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people. "
Yourself
Learning
Me
" There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work. "
People
Generation
Movies
" To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach. "
Doing
Work
Me
" To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across. "
Me
Almost
Across
" You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace. "
You
Creating
Lighting
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