One of my weekend hobbies is to go look at old houses when there are open houses around here. Just to go look at the architecture. And you can see how many houses were built around 1977, the year where everyone said, "Let's put in these aluminum windows instead of beautiful hand-made wood ones."

In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

The greatest moment of my life was, somebody sent me a cable-access show from Chicago that had Joey Ramone on it showing the video we made together. And he was talking about, like, "This guy Dan Clowes postponed his wedding for us. He's a great guy."

It's hard to tell if anyone's interested in reading a serialized story. But it's interesting to put in a cliffhanger each week. That was popular in old comic strips. They'd write a weekend story different from the daily strip. So people follow one story day to day, and a separate story on weekends. If you read them, you think "I'll read two more." Then you're like "I gotta find out!" And you read 500 more.

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.