Jamie Hewlett Quotes

I took a lot of influences from Studio Ghibli, which is the Japanese animation studio that made ‘Spirited Away’ and ‘Castle in the Sky.’ They’re like the Japanese version of Disney – but without all the schmaltz.

I see the ‘z’ in ‘Humanz’ as referring to robots, AI, programming, brainwashing, indoctrination. And it’s a question to us: are we human, or are we humanz? Have we lost the ability to think for ourselves? Do we just believe what we’re told? That’s how I see it.

I grew up doubting myself. It was a very spotty, frustrating, worrying time.

I have a problem with making eye contact with people, or with holding eye contact.

I don’t like collaborating too much.

I start with an idea in my head. I sketch it out quickly as a line drawing, using pencil. It never comes out quite right – usually a bit better than my mental picture.

It’s not that I never do interviews or that I find them traumatic. It’s just that I’m basically not that comfortable doing them.

I don’t go to enough exhibitions, purely because it intimidates me.

I love to draw and paint – that’s what makes me happy.

When I’m working on something, if I went to an exhibition of an artist I respect, then I usually come home quite depressed and look at what I’m doing and throw it all away and start again.

The more you draw, the better you get.

I can’t see anybody wanting to go to ‘Tank Girl: The Musical!’

You can write and write, but if you don’t have someone who can nail that character, it’s never going to live.

My mum was into pottery and embroidery, very artistic, and she knew some people from the college, which I think was how I got into it. My dad, who was a head-hunter, was also an incredible artist, and when he was very young, he was a really good cartoonist.

I can draw and paint in many different styles, and use different mediums to create work.

I love zombie films.

I’m always having ideas. I’d like to continue being able to realise the ideas I have.

Some comic artists I’ve known are better than most contemporary artists with work hanging in Tate Modern.