I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity. — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance,… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw. — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing Sin City.… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
The fundament of a superhero is the guy in tights saving innocent people from bad things. It's amazing how infrequently that seems… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks,… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
I find that if somebody is writing and drawing a comic book, planning it to be a movie and a game at… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
It was said Daredevil grew up in Hell's Kitchen, an amazing name for a neighbourhood. But that opened a Pandora's box of… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a comic book, I'm thinking about a character that I'm going to be drawing on the page. I've never… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
It's not movies and it's not "fine art." The beauty of a comic is that it's clear, direct communication. My work is… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call 'Die Hard'… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
The Dark Knight series is all from Batman’s point of view. But if you look at Dark Knight 2, you’ll see a… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
I guess in my own egotistical way I like to create my own library of Batman books that doesn't run contrary to… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
You do Batman right, and he's going to be popular. He's a great character. I was once asked by somebody if writing… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn't do anything. I mean, he's blind. It wasn't that he could fly.… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
In a way, 'Sin City''s designed to be paced somewhere between an American comic book and Japanese manga. Working in black and… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
The most questionable thing I did was make Superman a government agent. If this had been a Superman story, I'd never have… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
The comics I read as a kid were all about guys in tights. But here was a guy who wore a fedora.… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
People are attempting to bring a superficial reality to superheroes which is rather stupid. They work best as the flamboyant fantasies they… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for. — Frank Miller Copy Share
“I requested off this damn night shift four times now. Barbara needs me. Barbara and little James. So I hope it's boy, so what?” — Frank Miller Copy Share
But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic. — Frank Miller Copy Share
My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes… — Frank Miller Copy Share
This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle - broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man,… — Frank Miller Copy Share
A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it. — Frank Miller Copy Share
When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over her. — Frank Miller Copy Share
3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to… — Frank Miller Copy Share
I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts. — Frank Miller Copy Share
Nancy's got a guardian angel. Seven feet plus of muscle and mayhem that goes by the name of Marv. — Frank Miller Copy Share
I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so… — Frank Miller Copy Share
