J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

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• Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or…
• For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do…
• Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved…
• Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or…
• I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others... name me ten equally big, iconic Wonder Woman stories. Much…
• I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason…
• I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other…
• I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the…
• I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following…
• I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six…
• I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more police and procedural shows than I've ever…
• It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since…
• It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in…
• Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his…
• On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personality. Now I've been given the job of forming Superman's…
• Superhero stories are kind of in my DNA from childhood on, so I think I'm genetically drawn to playing in the genre when the opportunity…
• The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books…
• The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of…
• There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to…
• To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward.…

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