The film’s success so far involves winning a couple of prizes at Cannes and Sundance, and getting some very nice reviews in newspapers and magazines. That hasn’t had a big impact on my life yet. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
Things improved a little bit in the ’80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the ’90s. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
I’m always shook up and nervous and I’ve got the hospital record to prove it. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
I wake up every morning in a cold sweat, regardless of how well things went the day before. And put that I said that in a somewhat but not completely tongue-in-cheek way. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
I like to go back over history and check out what people have written and whether I agree with it or not. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
I’m trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing. Harvey Pekar Read Quote