I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers. Read Summary
I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many. Read Summary
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. Read Summary
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. Read Summary
To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures. Read Summary
My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time. Read Summary
I do all my work by storyboard, so as I draw the storyboard, the world gets more and more complex, and as a result, my North, South, East, West directions kind of shift and go off base, but it seems like my staff as well as the audience, doesn't quite realize that this has happened. Don't tell them about it. Read Summary
In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs. Read Summary
From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent. Read Summary
To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form - and local human passions and conditions and standards - are depicted as native to other worlds and universes. Read Summary
If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again. Read Summary
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. Read Summary
How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in flashes overlaid. Read Summary
You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time. Read Summary
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Read Summary
A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men. Read Summary
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. Read Summary
Some stories are true that never happened. Read Summary
I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments. Read Summary
Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out. Read Summary