Alan Moore Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.”

“It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.”

“Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless.”

“On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.”

“As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.”

“Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.”

“I love films that are made with almost no budget.”

“The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.”

“Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.”

“In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at heart and policemen sometimes killed people would have automatically made them a radical firebrand lefty. That's not the case anymore.”