At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It’s a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you’ll probably take a few.
BILL WATTERSONIf you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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Now if a joke is in bad taste or it’s not funny, okay, that’s awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer’s job is, and I don’t think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.
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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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You know, there are times when it’s a source of personal pride to not be human.
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Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! …Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.
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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that’s even worse
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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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Years from now, when I’m successful and happy, …and he’s in prison… I hope I’m not too mature to gloat.
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Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other.
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Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
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