Latest Scott Snyder Quotes from Interviews

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• I got fascinated by the idea that our universe itself is comprised mostly of dark matter and dark energy. Things that we can't perceive at all, and we've only discovered that relatively recently. So it's almost as if our universe is the foam on the ocean of things that we can't see, or know, or perceive, and yet we feel the affects of those things right and left.

  Scott Snyder

  Ocean, Dark, Energy

  Source: www.ign.com

• What I'm interested in exploring with Clark Kent is when you have the power to do something that goes beyond what you think is the right thing to do and the difficulty of that. Meaning, to be Superman also means to withhold a lot of power. He could reshape the world however he thinks it should be. But Superman doesn't, historically, do those things. He allows a certain level of self-governing and a certain level of independence, I think out of an admiration for humanity. Because he's inspired by the best in us and he challenges us to inspire each other to be the best that we can be.

  Scott Snyder

  Mean, Thinking, Self

• The thing with Superman is that he's completely emotionally open to the reader. Meaning what he tells you is what he's feeling; there's a transparency there. And what he tells other characters is usually as transparent as can be. What he says he believes in. So there's an honesty that is both really inspiring writing the character. One thing I love about Clark Kent is that there is a badassery that you don't see a lot. Even as Superman, he's always kind of restraining himself. When you challenge him, I think there's nobody that has a stronger spine than Superman.

  Scott Snyder

  Honesty, Believe, Writing

• Batman is the one you go to for answers and Clark Kent is the one you go to to really do the right thing. He stands as a shining example of what to do in any situation.

  Scott Snyder

  Shining, Example, Answers

• I love The End of the Batman story. I have my original copy, the hardcover, at my house from when I was a kid, whenever that was,'88 or '89. It was very influential to me because it was so explicit in touching on the notion that Batman might be mad and that he might belong in the mad house.

  Scott Snyder

  Kids, Mad, House

• I think thing that makes Batman so endlessly interesting is that he's one of the most flawed and deeply human characters, even though he seems completely the most inhuman and infallible in costume. Psychologically he's one of the most complicated in both his strengths and his weaknesses. For me, one of his great strengths and weaknesses is that confidence. His emotional self-protection is one of the things that makes him heroic and sacrificing; he doesn't have a personal life. He sacrifices those to be the best hero he can be.

  Scott Snyder

  Hero, Character, Sacrifice

• KGBeast starts chasing our heroes in a big way, and you get the return of an old character from the mythology that I think people will be really excited to see.

  Scott Snyder

  Hero, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

• A post-9/11, modern take being Batman training people to be the heroes they know they can be on their own.

  Scott Snyder

  Hero, People, Training

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

• There's nothing comparative to Damien [the current Robin] or any of the other characters. I love those characters. And this isn't, "This is better than that." I think a couple of people misread what we had said in the first issue about that stuff.

  Scott Snyder

  Couple, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

• What Batman is saying is that, "I want to try something new that's more about this era and this moment." And I do think that it speaks to a modern take [as opposed] to a 90s take or a 2000s take being maybe the older program about having a sidekick.

  Scott Snyder

  Thinking, Trying, Eras

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

• You take the thing that is the worst thing that could have happened to you, the worst challenge in your life, and you turn it into fuel. You don't give up. And that's what Gotham is about.

  Scott Snyder

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Challenges

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

• It's one of the worst nightmare situations we could create for a young character, having the people who are supposed to believe in you keep telling you you're nothing.

  Scott Snyder

  Believe, Character, Worst Nightmares

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

• Bruce sees in this character - who fought all the way through "Superheavy" when his parents were missing, and now is determined to fight even though his parents are telling him he's worth nothing - the essence of Batman.

  Scott Snyder

  Character, Fighting, Essence

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

• I really wanted to make sure that if we set Duke up, that he's set up the right way and he's his own hero for the right reasons.

  Scott Snyder

  Hero, Way, Dukes

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

• [Bruce] sees a lot of himself in [Batman], you know? You could argue that something even worse than what happened to Bruce happened to [Duke's] parents, who are now Joker-ized*. They're not just gone or irretrievably lost. And I'm NOT curing them, so you can put that out there! There's no relief from that.

  Scott Snyder

  Parent, Relief, Gone

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

• The hope that they have legs. That's the biggest fear you always have creating new people. You love them, but then they kind of dissipate. Sometimes you don't get to write them as much as you'd like, like me and Harper Row.

  Scott Snyder

  Writing, Creating, People

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

• [Duke] is the same way that Harper Row is a character who doesn't want to know who you are beneath the mask, and that makes her interesting. She'll show up and help Batman, but she never wants to know if he's Bruce Wayne.

  Scott Snyder

  Character, Interesting, Way

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

• I spoke to Geoff Johns a lot. We went back and forth, and found a way to bring up the best qualities in his personality and psychology and also fill a niche in Gotham that we've never seen. It became about is there a way to really plant this hero in Gotham and say this is someone you haven't seen before - both in terms of who they are as a person and who they are as a hero.

  Scott Snyder

  Hero, Personality, Psychology

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

• First of all, what made him [Duke in "Zero Year"] captivating is this sense of somebody who wants to save the city regardless of whether Batman wants to or not, but has been inspired by Batman. He's always been - not combative with Batman or anything - but I think he has a sense that what Robin is and what heroism is in Gotham is something that's inspired by Batman and sort of separate from Batman.

  Scott Snyder

  Zero, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

• Duke is a character who believes that heroism and the Robin mantle can exist entirely separate from Batman himself.

  Scott Snyder

  Believe, Character, Heroism

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

• "The Cursed Wheel," which Declan [Shalvey] is starting here, is the one constant. It's a story in the backups that will go through the whole year and be the one consistent narrative. It anchors the entire [book].

  Scott Snyder

  Book, Anchors, Years

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

• Jordie Bellaire knows how to tell a story with color.

  Scott Snyder

  Color, Stories, Know How

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

• "The Cursed Wheel" is the heart of the whole year on All-Star. All-Star is a series that's largely compartmentalized so that every artist can reinvent a villain and have Batman go up against the villain in a way that's pretty singular.

  Scott Snyder

  Stars, Heart, Artist

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

• Having that North Star for every story [about Batman] is really key for me. It allows me to go farther and farther off the reservation.

  Scott Snyder

  Stars, Keys, Stories

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

• I had to fight for wingdings. Batman needs to curse sometimes!

  Scott Snyder

  Fighting, Needs, Sometimes

  Source: www.denofgeek.com