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Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.

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.

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

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

I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.

So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.

You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.

So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

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

And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.

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

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

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

Cartooning is an honorable thing

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

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

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision

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

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

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something