On life
Kontext: Otherwise, I know I’m often wasting my breath and electronic ink saying this, but the “real-world” is a pretty weird place where lots of inexplicable things happen all the time, and I like to catch the flavor of that too. It just seems more modern and authentic to me as a storyteller. The “real world” doesn’t come with the neat three-act structures and resolutions we love to impose on it, and if repeated doses of movie and TV-storytelling have convinced anyone that it does, it‘s time to get out and about a bit. The real world is filled with ghost stories, non sequiturs, inexplicable mysteries, dead ends and absurdities, and I think it’s cool to season our comfortable fictions with at least a little taste of what actual reality is like. http://www.newsarama.com/comics/060904-Grant-Batman.html
Grant Morrison: Citáty anglicky
“Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.”
Popimage interview https://web.archive.org/web/20040803001942/http://www.popimage.com/content/grant20044.html
On magic
Kontext: All the comics are sigils. "Sigil" as a word is out of date. All this magic stuff needs new terminology because it's not what people are being told it is at all. It's not all this wearying symbolic misdirection that's being dragged up from the Victorian Age, when no-one was allowed to talk plainly and everything was in coy poetic code. The world's at a crisis point and it's time to stop bullshitting around with Qabalah and Thelema and Chaos and Information and all the rest of the metaphoric smoke and mirrors designed to make the rubes think magicians are "special" people with special powers. It's not like that. Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.
Popimage interview https://web.archive.org/web/20040803001942/http://www.popimage.com/content/grant20044.html
On magic
Kontext: All the comics are sigils. "Sigil" as a word is out of date. All this magic stuff needs new terminology because it's not what people are being told it is at all. It's not all this wearying symbolic misdirection that's being dragged up from the Victorian Age, when no-one was allowed to talk plainly and everything was in coy poetic code. The world's at a crisis point and it's time to stop bullshitting around with Qabalah and Thelema and Chaos and Information and all the rest of the metaphoric smoke and mirrors designed to make the rubes think magicians are "special" people with special powers. It's not like that. Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.
“Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.”
Zdroj: Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
Zdroj: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
“I run blindly through the madhouse… And I cannot even pray… For I have no God.”
Zdroj: Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
Zdroj: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
Zdroj: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
“Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.”
Zdroj: Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?”
Zdroj: Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.”
Zdroj: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
“There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.”
Zdroj: The Invisibles, Vol. 1: Say You Want a Revolution
Zdroj: Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
Zdroj: Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
Zdroj: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
“From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism.”
Zdroj: The Invisibles, Vol. 6: Kissing Mister Quimper
“Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?”
Zdroj: Animal Man, Vol. 2: Origin of the Species
Zdroj: Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.”
Zdroj: Doom Patrol, Vol. 1: Crawling from the Wreckage
2005
http://suicidegirls.com/words/Grant+Morrison/
On writing
2004
https://web.archive.org/web/20040807071522/http://www.popimage.com/content/grant20048.html Popimage interview
On magic
2004
https://web.archive.org/web/20041012215227/http://www.popimage.com/content/grant20042.html Popimage interview
On himself
2004
https://web.archive.org/web/20040803001942/http://www.popimage.com/content/grant20044.html Popimage interview
On The X-Men
2000
http://web.archive.org/web/20010215211642/http://www.bbc.co.uk/edfest/chat/post_chat.shtml
On himself