Joe Sacco Quotes & Sayings

“I'd much rather hang out in a cafe. That's where things are really happening.”

“I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself.”

“When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I became much more self-conscious of what I was doing.”

“It's a visual world and people respond to visuals.”

“When I went to Bosnia, I was there to tell someone else's story and I was more methodical.”

“And, in some ways I like traveling, in other ways I'm sort of fed up by the whole notion.”

“I don't often go to a place just to check out all the cultural sites of a city.”

“And I think I find, I know a lot of people around, in different cities, and so it's not - it might sound strange - but it's not that hard to say good-bye, because I know there's other people where I'm going. I can sort of fit in in a lot of places.”

“I don't like just traveling in for a short time. I've done that before, because sometimes you work for magazines and they have a budget, and if you're working for them, they want something by a certain time.”

“There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books.”