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

Bill Sienkiewicz

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

Artist Stories Want
To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.
BILL SIENKIEWICZ

Artist Irrelevant Technique
There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don’t want to work.
BILL SIENKIEWICZ

Artist Movie People
After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.
BILL SIENKIEWICZ

Art Illustrators School
Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something
BILL SIENKIEWICZ

Artist Driven Media
So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.
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Artist Filled Missing
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
BILL SIENKIEWICZ

Day Different One Pieces
I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.
BILL SIENKIEWICZ

Artist Stuff Want
And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It’s an avenue to say what you want to say
BILL SIENKIEWICZ

Artist Avenue Want
I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff
BILL SIENKIEWICZ

Artist Stuff Wanted
Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects
BILL SIENKIEWICZ

Artist Blood Comic Respect
Cartooning is an honorable thing
BILL SIENKIEWICZ

Artist Cartooning Honorable
For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States
BILL SIENKIEWICZ

Artist States World
But with comics you’re reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube
BILL SIENKIEWICZ

Comic Reading Simultaneously Tubes
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
BILL SIENKIEWICZ

Artist Film Looks
I still love a lot of the guys who just paint
BILL SIENKIEWICZ

Guy Paint Stills

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