Neil Gaiman on Q TV

[fernablu]

16:00 excelent quotation!

[cdeh77]

I did Neil Gaiman for my English class found out so many thing about him

[Forehead2Brick]

@cdeh77 Really? Was he a top or bottom?

[iamtheafterthought]

@Forehead2Brick ...one of the greatest youtube replies to date

[TheSnowyice]

Meh, he's right. Disney cartoons are cute but they can get pretty bland.

[CrunchTHEkangaroo]

17:36

[cabernetnguyen]

Neil makes me wanna become a writer, but then I go to a University writing class, but then I watch this video again.

[111134531]

I'm not gay and in any way, but both these people make me reconsider it.

[Conchobhar]

@111134531 You're bi. (:

[Hippiguru342]

Neil Gaiman is so sexy..

[Stepper11]

Look at the stories that work w/ kids. It's not the sickly sweet pabulum. It's stuff like Charlie Brown's Christmas. There's not a sentimental or overprotective moment in it. It's stunningly honest in its depiction of how children treat each other. The thoughtlessness. The cruelty. The harshness.Truly great art does not attempt to shelter kids from all the harshness of life. It exposes them to some of the darkeness, & it helps to prepare them for the world. Coddled children become awful adults.

[LauraGarciaCervantes]

@roguecereal yeah. ok kid.

[LauraGarciaCervantes]

when i was little i thought i wasnt invited to a birthday party. that was pretty horrifying.

[Stepper11]

@LauraGarciaCervantes Especially if it was your own birthday. : )

[ExcaliburofLight]

Gaiman is a big scientology clam who feeds money into the cult. He fed another half a million dollars into the cult through his business partner Mary Gaiman.

[IamIndeedLayingAnEgg]

@ExcaliburofLight If he's a follower, how come he never mentions Scientology publicly? Why would he deny it? It's all the rage right now with celebs. Neil Gaiman talks about how people find relations in unrelated things, how we look for things that don't exist, these are the words of an atheist or agnostic. His close family may practice the belief but it doesn't mean he does. His grandfather was a Jew, but his father's a Scientologist, for example. Anyway, would it be that bad if he was one?

[ceaserowns1]

@IamIndeedLayingAnEgg

His father was a Scientologist, he is not. ExcaliburofLight spends his free time posting the same thing on all of the videos of Neil, please ignore him.

[commentxxpolice]

I love the way he seems to smile as he talks.

[veskokanchev]

@commentxxpolice This is because he is English.

[LucidDivinity]

@roguecereal lmao, Neil is not stealing your stories. You do know that Stardust was written in 1999, right? That was 11 years ago. You were two. LIAR.

[kman756]

Neil Gaiman is my personal hero. There's hardly words to describe how much his writing has inspired and enthralled me!

[silharoun]

omg his voice is.................it's like listening to a book narrator 24/7, Me LIKEY

[qnapsack99999999]

Had the chance to meet him. A great guy and a very inspirational author.

[monsterhighreveiwgal]

@qnapsack99999999 awwwww soooooo lucky I want to meet him so freaking bad

[qnapsack99999999]

@monsterhighreveiwgal If he's holding a reading somewhere near you; he always talks with people and hands out autographs afterwards.

[allaboutdmagic]

Signal to Noise has got some really poignant and intelligent stuff in it.

[judobowie]

i think that its important to have these 'scary' aspects. kids need to learn morals - what it means to be good and bad. stories and films are one of the many ways they can learn about this. plus when theyre young they really believe these stories and you never get that again :) x

[14597ojai]

ahahaha "give edward gorey nightmares" eheheheheheh!!!!

[namazujin]

is that a painting of an olympian psychiatrist in an electric chair?

[xXHana3Xx]

I love Neils : 'Hellou' at the beggining ; ] 

[getbentforever2]

neil gaiman is NOT a scientologist! who cares if he was! morons! But he even says he isn't: go to bbc dot-co dot-uk forwardslash news forwardslash 10502324. 4minutes into the video reporter asks him are you a scientologist and he says no, his parents are, he isn't! THE END.

[jtv27]

@getbentforever2 that's right you tell the pricky buggers

[IDIOTES1982]

I bet he's a wonderful father

[ExcaliburofLight]

Neil Gaiman just donated another $500,000.00 to Scientology in 2010 through his business partner Mary Gaiman who received a “Gold Humanitarian Award” for contributing to Ideal Org, MN.

[PrawnSticks]

@ExcaliburofLight You've forgotten the bit where you condemn Scientology...

[jtv27]

@ExcaliburofLight he isn't a sientologist everybody and let's just focus how big of a genius ok people

[IDIOTES1982]

we have the same voice and the same sense of humour and relaxedness

about things

I love u

F

[IDIOTES1982]

I love you Neil

I always wondered about you

F

[xchasingcarsx]

@roguecereal somehow I don't believe you...

[senatormari]

Don't you just want to be able to read his mind?

[sonofthg]

He looks so fucking blitzed

[CloudFan346]

I love Neil Gaiman. My favorite book is American Gods. I am about to start reading Neverwhere and I have read quite a bit of Sandman. He is an amazing genius.

[crazyhaircut94]

I've so far read Anansi Boys, American Gods, and am right now reading Stardust, and I must say, Neil Gaiman is probably one of the most genius authors I've ever seen.

His way of writing combines a well written narrative with colorful details (many fail to make their details well done) and the presence of the author himself. He doesn't just narrate, he makes you live into it. And what I like most about his stories is that he doesn't abuse the power of his role as author, he writes rationally.

[hmmmmmism]

He looks a bit like Ross from friends:)

I love his books, but I have never read Sandman, even though I'd love to.

[urahararocking]

@hmmmmmism DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT. You will not regret it.

[enjoypolydor]

@hmmmmmism Out of everything I've read, the most satisfaction I got from a story was finishing the last volume of Sandman for the first time. Get them the next chance you get.

[NinjaOutfitInTheWash]

It's facinating to me how Neil seems to study the interviewer when he's presented by him.

I suppose thats what you do when you're a writer. :)

[MythicDude]

he shouda mentioned Mike Mignola on the list of awseome elevating graphic novelists but oh well...

great interveiw!!!

[AtticusStount]

Neil Gaiman, you have written some of the most touching work I've ever read; you are the first writer to make me cry. Thank you.

[emulicka]

I love his voice :)

[nicelydestroyed]

Awesome! X)

[thricecursed1]

That was a really great interview! I love hearing Neil speak about his stories. I've been a fan of his work for many years, and my 9 year old daughter also lists him as her favourite author (I'm so proud!) Don't know if its still up, but we watched him read a lot of the graveyard book aloud on a book tour- that was so much fun! can honestly say I've never read anything he has written that I ddn't like!

[magicalJoy]

There are so many things, movies, books, ideas that Neil is behind. I started off with Sandman, continued with Neverwhere, discovered that Stardust and Coraline was of his, and even Alan Moore thanks him in Watchmen. That man is awesome.

[Stubenhockerin13]

@magicalJoy

thats true i bougth a book calles anasy boys an was wondering some weeks why the name was so famely to me an now i know: I loved stardust i red good men (together with terry Pratchett) an bluberry girl and so on

I just was suprised how many storys i had read bevor i even know about him XD

[HugeDwarf89]

I'm reading American Gods and so far it seems like a REALLY GREAT book. I also watched Coraline and Stardust, films based on his books and I LOVE IT. Both films are on my list of best fantasy films. I'm getting more and more interested in his work :)

[Koich14]

"...somebody thinks they haven't been invited to a birthday party, BUT ACTUALLY THEY HAAAAVE!"

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

[boytype]

@Koich14 frikin hilarious

[AfterBirthShame]

@Koich14

 Lmfao.

[Darkpaint84]

@Koich14 and the sad thing is that its so true

[CrunchTHEkangaroo]

@Koich14 DUDE! its havedddd XD

[Koich14]

@CrunchTHEkangaroo true, true lol

[lilkkka]

i totally understand him and can relate to his words :)

[ZephyrinSkies]

Neil Gaiman is a graphic artist? I think u mean graphic novelist, art for Sandman is by other people.

I was hoping to hear more about Sandman, but i love what he has to say here.

I can so relate to 2:52. I used to think up all these illogical "what ifs" that would rly scare me.

[costeris35]

nobody cares :)

[LucidDivinity]

@ExcaliburofLight His father was involved in Scientology, he is not. And even if he was, does that change the quality of his work? Absolutely not.

You're an idiot, do your facts before spouting nonsense.

[FindMeTheExit]

Haha. LOVE Neil's pseudo-cheery tone from 17:50 to 18:00. xD Oh he's so...clever and humble and unassuming.

[onikjohn3]

Does anyone know when he started writing?

[anarcharnate]

Well, his Duran Duran book was 1984, IIRC. Comic scripts began in 85-6

[onikjohn3]

I was hoping he would tell us some stuff about Sandman then Carolie

[tisifurie]

I've been reading and following Gaiman's work for years. His re-imaginings of the supernatural and use of myth are inspirational. I particularly enjoyed, American Gods. The bit with the djinn driving a cab in New York, well....I think I've met that guy.

[anikundason]

"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." -G.K Chesterton

[NinaQueenofSpades]

"Coraline's not going to have magic powers, she's not going to be a chosen one..."

Smack on HP? Bahahaha.

[PhantomSeptember]

I was thinking more about Eragon when I heard that, but you're right about HP too.

I still like both of those series though. Even though they come nowhere close to how cool Neil Gaiman's stuff is...

[NinaQueenofSpades]

Oh, yeah. I'm an obsessive HP fan, I just thought it was funny.

I only read the first two of the Eragon series. I got bored for some reason :/.

[narutofan97]

I'm glad he's got something to hate. I wouldn't respect him as much if he was a pacifist.

[LucidDivinity]

@narutofan97 ...

[nostalgicmaelstrom]

*APPLAUSE*.

[GemGirl9]

Coraline and Graveyard sound like incredibly interesting books. I like the imaginative, supernatural element. His book Anansi Boys is good, too.

[ZipDog11]

I love this interview, Neil is such an interesting person.

[LucidDivinity]

@Urkalla Neil's father was involved in Scientology, Neil is not. Do your research before you make yourself look like an idiot.

[NathanROFL]

LOL graphic novels?

I thought they were comic books.

[JoeHughes]

I dunno why you've been marked down for this, any Gaiman fan will know that Neil himself refers to his stuff as comics because that's what they were called when he was writing them. Nothing wrong with comic books.

[Filmguy297]

I know, right? I still call them comics, and I kind of do see Gaiman's point about Comics just being Comics.

[RoberutsuPL]

it is about thinking that comics are just for kids

[TalonTheater]

Care more about arbitrary designations and an antiquated public perception.

[italouruguayricano]

Gaiman said once refering to that comment, that that is like saying that a whore is a "Lady of the night"

[NathanROFL]

Oh man. I remember that.

Look up the video for Neil Gaiman at GoogleTalks.

[CasualDaveDotCom]

You were told, or at least your producer was told, not to mention "Sandman!" Would you say that to Stan Lee?!?

[Chick6517]

have so had that whole Goku forgot the saiyans were coming Oh-crap moment before, in real life it's not that funny Is this the first o second time the ricola dude got attacked?? Now his genuis show's up where was it for his training (to Gohan).

[Redondo]

Top man.

[kuryamtl]

Wonderful interview. I am loved American Gods... i have yet to read other novels from him, will plan one day.

[lycheenut]

You might try reading Anansi Boys next since you liked American Gods. I think Neverwhere is most people's fave but I could be wrong about that.

[RoberutsuPL]

yeah, there is also Mr. Nancy :D

[tkem28]

Just finished the Graveyard Book and American God's. Neil is a really original author. Seems like a level headed guy.

This interview certainly went better than the Billy Bob one.

[fangirl0488]

Neil Gaiman ragging on Disney channel. I love him so much.

[crimsong19]

Excellent, excellent, excellent interview!

[ShesLostHere]

Neil is fantastic, and the discussion of fairy tale psychology is very interesting...what a compelling interview...great stuff!

[rowtow13]

That was a really great interview. I love Neil's description of the Disney channel stories. :P

[Ersanven]

This makes me sad that I probably won't be able to see Coraline in theaters.

[itsjustanillusion]

Great interview!

[armida55]

"somebody thinks they haven't been invited to a birthday party... BUT ACTUALLY THEY HAAAVE!!!" lmao

also: love what he said about what should be important in fairy tales!!!

[alexaairelfstone]

Love Neil :)

[Meatwad1102]

I expected him to be all old and scruffy like Alan Moore.

[rowtow13]

Nah, Neil Gaiman is much more down-to-earth than Alan Moore. :P

[bently42]

Awesome interview.

[feb0112358]

My little brother absolutely loved it, and it brought me back to all the creepy books I read when I was a kid. Love to hear him talking about the importance of fairy tales and teaching children that the scary things in life can be overcome because if children are only told that there is nothing scary in the world then they'll just be paralysed when it does happen.

[RachelETrapp]

By Far, my favorite author, I was lucky enough to have met him at a book signing- what a genuinely nice person, & I can honestly say, I love everything he's written- His writing has truly inspired me to look at life in a whole new context & with fervent imagination!

[Treknologist]

Did Neil Gaiman write anything good?

[prottoss89]

I take it you've never read Sandman...

[drseuss620]

American Gods

[Jikky14]

Stardust

[ender2814]

The question is: has he ever written anything bad?

[amazingdavidman]

Alice Cooper comic from the early 90s: terrible. 1602 was... well, it wasn't good. But mostly, yeah, he's more than a solid writer.

[guitaoist]

it was scary for little kids NEIL< OPEN your EYES!

innovation kids don't give two shits about

[LucidDivinity]

@guitaoist Nah...having read Coraline with my class as a younger child, I agree with him. The kids loved it, the adults were the only ones who were disturbed (because they didn't think it was appropriate for children). Besides, kids should be the ones to decide what is and isn't too frightening for them- like he said, all are different.

[guitaoist]

o so kids should watch clockwork orange to determine for themselves if they're allowed to watch it? lol

[LucidDivinity]

@guitaoist A Clockwork Orange is rated R, which means it's a film for adults.

Coraline is a children's book, which means it's been deemed appropriate for children.

[hazelbays]

His story about his childhood home were he talks about opening the door to the bricked in doorway is perfect. That is so Gaiman.

[AlwaysChaotic]

Awesome!! Thanks for this interview. I bought The Graveyard book last week and can't wait to read it to my kids!

Neil is awesome!!

[psychofurby]

Neil Gaiman is the man. Neverwhere is okay, but American Gods is brilliant and his short stories are a lot of fun. Definitely one of my favorite authors. And he's not a douchebag!

[JetBlackxox]

I could listen to Neil talk all day. He should really look into doing books on tape :)

[joyflg1rl]

He does, actually. He's narrated several of his own books and short story collections. I enjoy listening to his audiobooks.

[adimo]

Dude! He DOES all the audio-books for his writing. Check it out on itunes or on amazon.

I'm currently reading The Graveyard Book to my 4th grade class. They love it, it is beautifully written and it inspires some great inference lessons.

So great to hear this wonderful conversation.

[JetBlackxox]

Well I figured that. What I meant was more of a Neil Gaiman does Ernest Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls. I should have been more specific. My apologies.

[bennymcfarlane]

Ah, what a neat story! The author's story, I mean; though I'm sure the stories he wrote are good too.