Frank Miller Quotes
- The fundament of a superhero is the guy in tights saving innocent people from bad things. It's amazing how infrequently that seems to happen in…
- In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could…
- Hell’s waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you’re here.
- News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.
- My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does…
- The most questionable thing I did was make Superman a government agent. If this had been a Superman story, I'd never have done that -…
- What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten…
- Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not…
- 'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.
- Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for.
- A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it.
- You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's…
- The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
- And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.
- People are attempting to bring a superficial reality to superheroes which is rather stupid. They work best as the flamboyant fantasies they are. I mean,…
- Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.
- I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the 'New York Times' to Rupert Murdoch has a…
- But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.
- Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.
- I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can…