I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a deep passion for comics beyond its commercial value.
J. Michael Straczynski's quote highlights the intrinsic love he has for the medium of comics, suggesting that his motivation to write them is not driven by financial necessity but by a genuine appreciation for their artistic expression, storytelling potential, and unique structure. This underscores the importance of creating art for the sake of passion, rather than merely for a living.
In practice
This quote can inspire artists at a comic convention to pursue their true passions.
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.
Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous.
You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.
The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible in-between. But there is still time to seize that one last fragile moment.
When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world - No, you move.
For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase.
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
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