Todd McFarlane Quotes

I guess we're all just wired different. I just got to the point where I got tired of people telling me what I can and can't do in my life.

I don't belong. Not here. Not now. I have to get back there. The bet was rigged, he made me believe. Now there's darkness in my soul. I want to die . . . again. But I choose to come back, why?

I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done.

I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.

If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig.

But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion.

I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.

Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it.

Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities.

The deal is that you can do it, you don't really owe me anything, but at the end of it, I own the film. Then I can actually go out and reprint or not reprint if it I want.

Batman is easily my most favorite character beside Spawn.

I got sort of disinterested in working for the system.

To me, I was always just standing on the sidelines because up until issue 50, we were just doing Spawn. I wasn't recruiting anybody because I didn't have any books for people to work on.

Obviously Spawn was at the top of the charts at that point so you get a lot of opportunities.

Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.

I want to go to my grave a free man. Surviving against giants-that's victory.

I remember there was someone. Someone to love. Someone to hate. And I was something. Something special. And proud of it. For a time. Then they turned on me. He turned on me. I remember . . . dying.

Ive been fortunate to come on places where the question isnt why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didnt anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.