Frank Miller Quotes - Page 2

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• A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it.

  Frank Miller

  Dog, Fire, Bunch

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• Hell's waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you're here.

  Frank Miller

  Sin City, Knowing, Wake Up

  "Sin City". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• I can tell you squat about Islam. I don’t know anything about it. But I know a goddamn lot about al Qaeda and I want them all to burn in hell.

  Frank Miller

  Needs, Als, Hell

  "Frank Miller: Proud To Be Ignorant" by Alyssa Rosenberg, thinkprogress.org. October 27, 2011.

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• The comics I read as a kid were all about guys in tights. But here was a guy who wore a fedora. He fought crime like they did in Marvel and DC, but he did it in the real world. I had just turned 12 when I met the Spirit and it was a strange coincidence. At the same time I discovered girls I fell out of love with guys in tights.

  Frank Miller

  Girl, Real, Kids

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• This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle - broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I surely would ... ... but I'm a man of thirty - of twenty again. The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again.

  Frank Miller

  Moving, Rain, Men

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• 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 doing right by the women.

  Frank Miller

  Horse, Artist, Thinking

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• It's one thing to be sitting at a drawing board, alone in your home and coming up with a fantasy character, and drawing her whichever way you feel like drawing, then dealing with a real performer. All of a sudden, things change. It's amazing, in working with actors, how much I learn from them and how many new lines will come to mind because of their personality or their strengths.

  Frank Miller

  Real, Character, Home

  Source: collider.com

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• 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. His major power was an impediment. So I was intrigued. When I took over he was kind of like Spider-Man-lite, but I was able to project a lot of my Catholic imagery onto it. And I'd always wanted to do a crime comic.

  Frank Miller

  Mean, Men, Catholic

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• My Sin City heroes are knights in dirty, blood-caked armor. They bring justice to a world that gives them no medals, no praise, no reward. That world, that city, often kills them for their brave service.

  Frank Miller

  Dirty, Hero, Knights

  "Frank Miller: I Stole From The Best!". COMICDOM interview, January 22, 2006.

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• In a way, 'Sin City''s designed to be paced somewhere between an American comic book and Japanese manga. Working in black and white, I realized that the eye is less patient, and you have to make your point, and sometimes repeat it. Slowing things down is harder in black and white, because there isn't as much for the eye to enjoy.

  Frank Miller

  Book, Eye, Black And White

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• Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy.

  Frank Miller

  Men, Cities, Enemy

  "Fictional character: Bruce Wayne". "Batman: Year One", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• I find that if somebody is writing and drawing a comic book, planning it to be a movie and a game at the same time tends to lead to a pretty lame job.

  Frank Miller

  Jobs, Book, Writing

  "Frank Miller Talks SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR, the future of 300, Reincarnating Robocop, Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, and More at Comic-Con". Interview with Hunter Daniels, collider.com. July 28, 2014.

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• 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 so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.

  Frank Miller

  Hero, Play, Firefighter

  "Returning to the Dark Knight: Frank Miller Interview – Part 1". Interview with Charles Brownstein, www.cbr.com. April 21, 2000.

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• What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

  Frank Miller

  Technology, Thinking, Skills

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• 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 be.

  Frank Miller

  Book, Thinking, Want

  "Frank Miller talks Extensively About 300 Follow-Up XERXES" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. January 3, 2011.

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• My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

  Frank Miller

  Hero, Artist, Feelings

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• I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing 'Sin City'. When I first got to New York I was swiftly informed that they only did guys in tights.

  Frank Miller

  New York, Sin City, Cities

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.

  Frank Miller

  New York, Writing, Men

  "Black and white and bloody" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2005.

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• It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the course of 'Holy Terror.' There are interludes where there are pictures - cartoon pictures - of modern figures and they are all wordless. It's up to readers to put the words in.

  Frank Miller

  Cartoon, Modern, Holy

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• You can never escape me. Bullets don't harm me. Nothing harms me. But I know pain. I KNOW pain. Sometimes I share it. With someone like you.

  Frank Miller

  Pain, Bullets, Sometimes

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• I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.

  Frank Miller

  Sin City, Wire, Cuffs

  "Sin City". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• I'll make it. I won't die. I've got too much I have to do to let myself die.

  Frank Miller

  Too Much, Dies

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• 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 work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.

  Frank Miller

  Book, Thinking, World

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. December 05, 2001.

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• She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.

  Frank Miller

  Sin City, Pez

  "Sin City". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality.

  Frank Miller

  Jobs, Book, Reality

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