Especially with Elektra, because I’m doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra. – Bill Sienkiewicz
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
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. – Bill Sienkiewicz
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
I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff. – Bill Sienkiewicz
For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States. – Bill Sienkiewicz
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. – Bill Sienkiewicz
So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic. – Bill Sienkiewicz
There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don’t want to work. – Bill Sienkiewicz
You’re telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace. – Bill Sienkiewicz
If you’re going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it. – Bill Sienkiewicz
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
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. – Bill Sienkiewicz
I was lucky enough to be given books that weren’t top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar. – Bill Sienkiewicz
So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It’s pushing the envelope. It’s the truth of something through exaggeration. – Bill Sienkiewicz
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. – Bill Sienkiewicz
Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something. – Bill Sienkiewicz
So there’s kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe. – Bill Sienkiewicz
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. – Bill Sienkiewicz
