I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters.

I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters.

I want the 'Roots' biopic to be animated - I see Charles Schulz drawing us. I think it would be more hilarious with the voices of children.

My dream was to draw for 'The Beano.' When I was 10 years old, I started drawing cartoon strips with 'The Beano' in mind. I lived in that world. You own a comic, it's yours and adults don't understand it. You could pile them up under the bed, and if you were off school ill, you'd go through them all.

Drawing on real life is what novelists do. It's not the same as reconstructing real life, which is what historians do.

There's always plays that Coach Reid just draws up every single week. I always say that they always work. He just gets on the board in his room and just starts drawing plays. The possibilities are endless.

When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.

One of my favorite photographers is Ruvan Wijesooriya, who takes most of the LCD photos. His work is incredibly colloquial and raw.

I wasn't into jazz so much - I preferred things raw.

I base everything on my instinctual approach. There's something very satisfying in that creativity, and it's a bit like an infant drawing.

Tom Selleck is a big draw.

At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage.

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

My drawing for women is really curvy. My drawings for men are actually quite angular.

I can't draw. I'm good on the yo-yo, but I don't draw.

I was always drawn to the didgeridoo.

Your instincts for what's dramatic are the same whether you're working on a drawing or on a script.

There's never been a moment where I sat down at my drawing board and thought, 'I'm a pro!'