Mark Millar Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.”
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“Anytime something becomes a success in this way you always get imitators. I'm an imitator of the guys I love. I imitate people like Frank Miller, who is a huge inspiration to me.”
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“Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.”
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“Would you rather see a super soldier battling Nazis or something more serious? Or lesbians down a coal mine? Generally, the films are engaging in the same way as the comics are. It's no coincidence that the biggest movies are genre-related, whether it's Lord of the Rings or comic books.”
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“The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect ... but the other reason is that it was a book about being different in a culture where, for the first time in the West, being different wasn't just accepted, but was also fashionable. I don't think it's a coincidence that gay rights, black rights, the empowerment of women and political correctness all happened over those twenty years and a book about outsiders trying to be accepted was almost the poster-boy for this era in American culture.”
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“The ultimate [act] that would be the taboo, to show how bad some villain is, was to have somebody being raped, you know? I don't really think it matters. It's the same as, like, a decapitation. It's just a horrible act to show that somebody's a bad guy.”
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“The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.”
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“The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.”
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“The heart is a muscle, and you strengthen muscles by using them. The more I lead with my heart, the stronger it gets.”
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“Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.”
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“I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.”
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“I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.”
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“I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.”
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“Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.”
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“I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.”
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“At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.”
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“Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.”
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“I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.”
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“Jesus, man. Why do people want to be Paris Hilton and nobody wants to be Spider-Man?”
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“It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a power ring...Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.”
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“Batman: a force of chaos in my world of perfect order. The dark side of the Soviet dream. Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents, they said he was a ghost. A walking dead man. A symbol of rebellion that would never fade as long as the system survived. Anarchy in black.”
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“I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.”
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“The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.”
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“Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.”
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“The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.”
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“I'm just running through this list of potential nannies and wondered if we should go for a superhero this time. Do you think Wolverine would be interested? He seems to be on every other team right now...”
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“She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4.”
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“I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.”
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“Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.”
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“I am as resilient as the steel that was once made here, and I am a fighter, in every sense of the word. We all are.”
-- Mark Millar
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