The thing that's been exciting about 'Superman' is to see how the character has developed through generations. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm a fan myself, so I try to write the kind of comics I want to read. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
We've always known we'd eventually be called upon to open our shirts and save the day, and the superhero was a crude,… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I think any writer coming on to 'Batman' should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I prefer working out of strict continuity, because no normal human being can have a firm grip on the constantly shifting bardo-like… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Gayness is built into Batman. I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There's just no… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
A comic will always be more 'personal' than a DVD or CD, both of which require electronic 'players' to decode their content.… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I do like to keep abreast of what the hardcore vocal members of the comics-reading audience are talking about on Internet message… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
When [Wonder Woman creator William Moulton] Marston died in 1947, they got rid of the pervy elements, and instantly sales plummeted. Wonder… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I loved IRON MAN: Robert Downey Jr. has been and probably will be my favourite actor for a long time…but IRON MAN,… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
With Marvel and DC, you're working with their pre-established fictional universes and characters. At those places, you're working with characters who will… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
In the world of the superheroes, everything had value, potential, mystery. Any person, thing, or object could be drafted into service in… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
X-Men is not a story about superheroes, but a story about the ongoing revolutionary struggle between good/new and bad/old. The X-Men are… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Because it all derived from Superman. I mean, I love all the characters, but Superman is just this perfect human pop-culture distillation… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
The 'medium' is unaware of its attractiveness, that's all. Everyone loves comics. I've proven this to my own satisfaction by handing them… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I think that superhero comics in particular are really useful for talking about big emotions and feelings, and personifying and concretizing symbols. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I love 'Batman.' I love the Adam West 'Batman.' I love the animated 'Batman.' The character of Batman can encompass any interpretation,… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I guess my inspiration is this - I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to 'Batman' was real and… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Sometimes... sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We're inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it's… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Actually, it's as if [Superman is] more real than we are. We writers come and go, generations of artists leave their interpretations,… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“Look at it, Dane. Look at the city and the world in its proud array, like a cask of jewels laid open for you.… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Sometimes I pretend not to look at my own characters, because that's like different people getting off with your girlfriend or something. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go home and… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
The more I think about it, the more I realize that schools are just factories for turning out robots, that's all. They get you… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I plan years in advance, but I like to leave enough space in the narrative scheme to change things, because I always get my… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm a fan myself, so I try to write the kind of comics I want to read. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it’s only in the same way a fish… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image