- Nov 07, 2020
How Quotes
The questions behind every choice.
This set of how quotes covers a range of specific curiosities, from wondering how an R rating limits a film's audience to asking how a franchise could work without its signature character. Several reflect on the practical 'how' behind creative decisions rather than abstract philosophy. Related reflections continue in our About quotes.
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- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned how to do stop-frame animation and I experimented with that a lot, and pretty much that was my mode of animating through high school.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember how inspiring it was to meet players like Bobby Charlton or Bryan Robson when I was a kid. I still remember Clive Allen showing up when I received a trophy for my Sunday league team.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may not have written the stories that I've written if I hadn't ended up in Niverville. I don't know; I don't know. How can you know?
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
- True
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of this is true, how much invented.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
How would Jonathan Lethem have obtained such a stellar endorsement for 'The Fortress of Solitude' from Michael Chabon, if not for the years they spent ghostwriting 'MAD' magazine fold-ins together?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
How could I have been anyone other than me?
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020