Eric Holmes quotes

Black Mask is new money. He's rich. He's very, very powerful. He's made it. He's known for being brutal and sadistic. And particularly at this point in the Arkham franchise he has enormous resources. He is the number one gang leader in Gotham. And has easily the most power in the city.
-- Eric Holmes

#Powerful #Cities #Numbers

I think Anarky's age is right now. He looks like a street protester. He looks like Anonymous. He's like one of these guys who wants to go out there and change the world to what he believes is the better, and I think of all the Batman enemies, and one of the reasons I'm most excited about Anarky, is he feels relevant today.
-- Eric Holmes

#Believe #Thinking #Guy

Shooting someone point blank still generates an explosion out of the end of a gun, even if the projectile is somehow ineffective.
-- Eric Holmes

#Gun #Shooting #Blank

As a designer, I love to explore user edge cases and figure out what appear to be rules.
-- Eric Holmes

#Designer #Figures #Cases

There's a ton of potential to do something absolutely loopy with a world that you create and characters that you are literally surgically constructing.
-- Eric Holmes

#Character #World

I'd like to do something impossible rather than just something historical.
-- Eric Holmes

#Historical #Impossible

I would love to use the tools and technology to create a completely different reality with its own rules. And in doing so, create something that incorporates the ethical component more deeply into the experience.
-- Eric Holmes

#Technology #Reality #Different

We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

Chris [Nolan] comes at this with such a different take on Batman, so I didn't feel that I had to be true to any other actor playing this role. Of course, I read the comic books. His relationships with Lt. Gordon and with Batman, with Gotham City, those really helped me the most.

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope?-- You yourself must change it.

The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.

Soul brother number 1+1 Gettin' fed like where drugs and guns come from

There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.

Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.