Quotes by Bill Sienkiewicz

About Bill Sienkiewicz:

Boleslav William Felix Robert "Bill" Sienkiewicz 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.
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Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.

Bill Sienkiewicz

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.

Bill Sienkiewicz

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

Bill Sienkiewicz

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.

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

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

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

But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.

Bill Sienkiewicz

But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it.

Bill Sienkiewicz

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.

Bill Sienkiewicz

And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client.

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

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

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

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

Bill Sienkiewicz

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

Bill Sienkiewicz

Author Bio

  • NameBill Sienkiewicz
  • DescriptionWriter
  • BornMay 3, 1958
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionComics Artist