But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.

I still love a lot of the guys who just paint.

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff.

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.

Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects.

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.

If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special.

And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States.

There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.

So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.

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.

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will.

So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.

I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.

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.

So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe.

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.

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.

I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants.

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it.

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.

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.

But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.

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.

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story.

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it.

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.

So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.