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

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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Bill Sienkiewicz (36)

Birth:	3rd May, 1958
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Artist, Cartoonist

About

Bill Sienkiewicz was born in Blakely, Pennsylvania.He is an Eisner Award-winning American artist and writer best known for his comic book work, primarily for Marvel Comics' The New Mutants and Elektra: Assassin. Sienkiewicz often utilizes oil painting, collage, mimeograph and other forms generally uncommon in comic books. Sienkiewicz attended the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts in Newark, New Jersey. Sienkiewicz continued as artist of the Moon Knight color comics series, starting with the first issue. Sienkiewicz produced covers for a range of Marvel titles, including Rom, Dazzler, The Mighty Thor, Return of the Jedi and The Transformers, and drew the comic adaptation of Dune.

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