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Top 20 Dave McKean Quotes (2025 Update)

Dave McKean Quote: “I’m always thinking about story, and the development of ideas or images, so with all types of media, I’m simply trying to communicate the feelings and ideas in the story or characters in the most appropriate and effective way.”

1. “I’m always thinking about story, and the development of ideas or images, so with all types of media, I’m simply trying to communicate the feelings and ideas in the story or characters in the most appropriate and effective way.”

— Dave McKean

Dave McKean Quote: “I like stories that exist both in the naturalistic world and in our imaginative lives, films are so immersive in that sense, we can explore how our characters think and dream, as well as how they exist in the real world.”

2. “I like stories that exist both in the naturalistic world and in our imaginative lives, films are so immersive in that sense, we can explore how our characters think and dream, as well as how they exist in the real world.”

— Dave McKean

Dave McKean Quote: “I like being able to do anything. I think that’s healthy, doing anything and everything, rather than just getting completely obsessed with one particular genre or particular kind of work.”

3. “I like being able to do anything. I think that’s healthy, doing anything and everything, rather than just getting completely obsessed with one particular genre or particular kind of work.”

— Dave McKean

Dave McKean Quote: “The filmmakers I really love are the ones that let me look through their eyes for a while. They have an aesthetic and social point of view.”

4. “The filmmakers I really love are the ones that let me look through their eyes for a while. They have an aesthetic and social point of view.”

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Dave McKean Quote: “I think the two jobs I dreamed of doing as a teenager were comic book artist and record cover illustrator. Maybe film director was in the mix as well, but that seemed to be an impossible mountain to climb.”

5. “I think the two jobs I dreamed of doing as a teenager were comic book artist and record cover illustrator. Maybe film director was in the mix as well, but that seemed to be an impossible mountain to climb.”

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Dave McKean Quote: “Everybody’s a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.”

6. “Everybody’s a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.”

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Dave McKean Quote: “I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era.”

7. “I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era.”

— Dave McKean

Dave McKean Quote: “So I really love this very difficult feeling of being completely out at sea. I don’t know what I’m doing, and I kind of like this feeling. So I think for the moment, I’m going to continue to try and nail film down in some sort of shape where I’m happy with it.”

8. “So I really love this very difficult feeling of being completely out at sea. I don’t know what I’m doing, and I kind of like this feeling. So I think for the moment, I’m going to continue to try and nail film down in some sort of shape where I’m happy with it.”

— Dave McKean

Dave McKean Quote: “I’m a huge science fan; I read a lot of science books. But I’m not a scientist, my interest in science is I love the facts, but I like to interpret those facts. They become the raw materials for stories and paintings and things.”

9. “I’m a huge science fan; I read a lot of science books. But I’m not a scientist, my interest in science is I love the facts, but I like to interpret those facts. They become the raw materials for stories and paintings and things.”

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Dave McKean Quote: “My stuff is generally quite collage-y anyway. So it’s sort-of suited to gathering raw materials like shooting actors, then making stills or animating characters, then just bringing them all together in a 3D space. That process is very close to my 2D work anyway.”

10. “My stuff is generally quite collage-y anyway. So it’s sort-of suited to gathering raw materials like shooting actors, then making stills or animating characters, then just bringing them all together in a 3D space. That process is very close to my 2D work anyway.”

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Dave McKean Quote: “When you just get fantasy stories that are about fairies or goblins, I just don’t care. I’m never going to meet a goblin, it doesn’t mean anything to me. So my definition of fantasy is very broad, it’s anything to do with memory, or dreams, or ways of interpreting or making sense of the world.”

11. “When you just get fantasy stories that are about fairies or goblins, I just don’t care. I’m never going to meet a goblin, it doesn’t mean anything to me. So my definition of fantasy is very broad, it’s anything to do with memory, or dreams, or ways of interpreting or making sense of the world.”

— Dave McKean

Dave McKean Quote: “Usually, the most difficult thing to do is photo-real stuff. Something that has to actually look like the real world, because it’s just so difficult to do that. We’re just so used to looking at the real world, our brains instantly see when something is not quite right.”

12. “Usually, the most difficult thing to do is photo-real stuff. Something that has to actually look like the real world, because it’s just so difficult to do that. We’re just so used to looking at the real world, our brains instantly see when something is not quite right.”

— Dave McKean

Dave McKean Quote: “The reason I love comics is that they DON’T move, and there is NO sound. As a creator I have to evoke those elements in the drawings and writing, and the reader has to create those elements in their own minds.”

13. “The reason I love comics is that they DON’T move, and there is NO sound. As a creator I have to evoke those elements in the drawings and writing, and the reader has to create those elements in their own minds.”

— Dave McKean

Dave McKean Quote: “Pride in what and who you are is a strong foundation, but don’t be defined by your oppression; use your anger, don’t let it use you.”

14. “Pride in what and who you are is a strong foundation, but don’t be defined by your oppression; use your anger, don’t let it use you.”

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Dave McKean Quote: “Oh, sheep. I’ve lost all my sobbing colours.”

15. “Oh, sheep. I’ve lost all my sobbing colours.”

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Dave McKean Quote: “You could easily spend several lifetimes trying to master film. It make very good use of all the things that I love. Narrative, image-making, also sound and music. It’s so full that I can’t really imagine getting tired of it. Or getting to the point like I feel like I know it.”

16. “You could easily spend several lifetimes trying to master film. It make very good use of all the things that I love. Narrative, image-making, also sound and music. It’s so full that I can’t really imagine getting tired of it. Or getting to the point like I feel like I know it.”

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Dave McKean Quote: “Reading a good comic is a creative act. Watching a film is often a more passive experience, and since I’m interested in engaging that conversational aspect of creativity, I’m trying to find ways of achieving that in my films.”

17. “Reading a good comic is a creative act. Watching a film is often a more passive experience, and since I’m interested in engaging that conversational aspect of creativity, I’m trying to find ways of achieving that in my films.”

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Dave McKean Quote: “I love telling stories. And even in single images, I tend to have stories inside them. I’ve always loved film, but I was making drawings and paintings and photographs. And you put art and narrative together, and that really is comics.”

18. “I love telling stories. And even in single images, I tend to have stories inside them. I’ve always loved film, but I was making drawings and paintings and photographs. And you put art and narrative together, and that really is comics.”

— Dave McKean

Dave McKean Quote: “I tend to be known for different things. I mean, there are a lot of comics or sci-fi fans out there who sort of think of me doing that kind of work, but there are just as many people who like the CD covers I’ve done, or the children’s books I’ve done. So different people like different things.”

19. “I tend to be known for different things. I mean, there are a lot of comics or sci-fi fans out there who sort of think of me doing that kind of work, but there are just as many people who like the CD covers I’ve done, or the children’s books I’ve done. So different people like different things.”

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Dave McKean Quote: “Film gives me live actors, editing, music, sound, a huge and powerful toolbox to play with. If there is a problem for me, it is that film gives me too much. There is less room for the audience to add their side of the conversation.”

20. “Film gives me live actors, editing, music, sound, a huge and powerful toolbox to play with. If there is a problem for me, it is that film gives me too much. There is less room for the audience to add their side of the conversation.”

— Dave McKean

Dave McKean Quote: “I like the adventures because you know that when they say, “I’ve got a plan,” and then they tell you, you know it’s not going to work. And when they say, “I’ve got a plan,” and they don’t tell you, you know it is going to work, and it’s all very exciting. I thought real life might be like that for a while, so I didn’t tell anybody what I wanted to happen, but it didn’t make any difference. I knew I was kiddin’ meself.”

21. “I like the adventures because you know that when they say, “I’ve got a plan,” and then they tell you, you know it’s not going to work. And when they say, “I’ve got a plan,” and they don’t tell you, you know it is going to work, and it’s all very exciting. I thought real life might be like that for a while, so I didn’t tell anybody what I wanted to happen, but it didn’t make any difference. I knew I was kiddin’ meself.”

— Dave McKean

Dave McKean Quote: “She looked out at the other trees, and she realised that her life was one of thousands, any one of which could have been her, she had grown wherever her life had taken her, she had drifted wherever the wind had blown her.”

22. “She looked out at the other trees, and she realised that her life was one of thousands, any one of which could have been her, she had grown wherever her life had taken her, she had drifted wherever the wind had blown her.”

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Dave McKean Quote: “Dreams are collisions of memories, they fuse the inconvenience of a mislaid pen with the grief of losing a loved one. They create hybrids, centaurs.”

23. “Dreams are collisions of memories, they fuse the inconvenience of a mislaid pen with the grief of losing a loved one. They create hybrids, centaurs.”

— Dave McKean

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