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I love CGI if it's invisible. I don't like it when it's there and obvious.

I love CGI if it's invisible. I don't like it when it's there and obvious.

Neil Gaiman
Invisible, Obvious, Cgi
"COMIC-CON 2006: Throwing Around Some Stardust with Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. July 23, 2006.

Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact).

Neil Gaiman
Book, Kids, Trying
"Uncharted Waters: Joe Hill Explores Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Interview With Robin A. Rothman, www.amazonbookreview.com. June 9, 2013.

Twitter is great and it's glorious and it's easy, but if somebody comes up with something kind of like Twitter tomorrow, that's better or smarter or more useful, in three weeks time, Twitter could more or less be history because that's how fast things go.

Neil Gaiman
Three, Tomorrow, Kind
"Neil Gaiman Talks AMERICAN GODS, DOCTOR WHO, Writing a Musical, Ray Bradbury, China and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 30, 2011.

I always say that if you're a novelist, the challenge is not writing what you think ought to happen, but trying in some way to write what did happen in a world that doesn't necessarily exist.

Neil Gaiman
Writing, Thinking, Challenges
Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. September 28, 2005.

"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What fascinates me is not that people ask the question, but what kind of answer are they really looking for? Because if I tell them the truth, which is "I make them up," they seem very disappointed. They want to know about the trek I do once a year to the mountain.

Neil Gaiman
Ideas, Years, People

I once read that you die because you see the Angel of Death, and you fall in love. And you fall in love so hard your soul is sucked out through your eyes, and that's the moment of death. It's a lovely, strange old Jewish legend.

Neil Gaiman
Falling In Love, Eye, Angel
"Master Shaper". Interview with David Carroll, www.tabula-rasa.info. 1997.

One of the things I'm concerned about is that I really want to make sure the races of all the characters are kept. I don't like it when black characters become white in movies, or things like that.

Neil Gaiman
Character, White, Race
"Neil Gaiman Talks AMERICAN GODS, DOCTOR WHO, Writing a Musical, Ray Bradbury, China and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 30, 2011.

I came to the conclusion that in comedy, everybody gets what they need, whereas in horror, everybody gets what they deserve. I decided that at the end of the day, I was going to give everybody what they needed.

Neil Gaiman
Giving, The End Of The Day, Needs
Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. September 28, 2005.

When I was young, you know, the first foreign editions that would come in of anything of mine, I'd sit there and look at them as these strange and wonderful artifacts.

Neil Gaiman
Looks, Firsts, Strange
Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. September 28, 2005.

There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is such a thing as an inappropriate artist. The trick is matching the artist with a story.

Neil Gaiman
Artist, Stories, Matching

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