Frank Miller Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.”
-- Frank MillerSource : "Fictional character: Penelope Garcia". "Criminal Minds: True Night" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 2007.
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“I moved to New York and was told, "Go back home. We don't need you. Go pump gas. You're from Vermont. We've got no use for you. You're not drawing guys in tights." So, I learned how to draw guys in tights, and I put them in as many crime situations as I could.”
-- Frank MillerSource : Source: collider.com
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“Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.”
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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.”
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“When you got a condition, it's bad to forget your medicine.”
-- Frank MillerSource : "Fictional character: Marv". "Sin City", 2005.
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“Working with the kind of talent that I've gotten to work with, like the cast of Sin City, it makes me think probably more fully dimensionally about what is going on behind their eyes. But I draw the way I draw, and ain't nothing gonna change that. Although, I draw Marv and I think, "Boy, I could throw a little Mickey [Rourke] in there."”
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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.”
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“I'm not going to complain about the fact that people are paying attention to my work. I suppose that wouldn't be fair.”
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“Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for.”
-- Frank MillerSource : "Frank Miller's Holy Terror sends superhero to battle al-Qaida" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2011.
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“I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den.”
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“I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coats. So that's what I write about.”
-- Frank MillerSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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.”
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“When I'm writing a comic book, I'm thinking about a character that I'm going to be drawing on the page. I've never drawn a character to look like who I want to cast in a movie because I don't think that way. I'm a real monomaniac. I do one thing at a time.”
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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.”
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“The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.”
-- Frank MillerSource : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. December 5, 2001.
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“Mighty cultures never - are almost never conquered. They crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats because everything isn't working out perfectly every time.”
-- Frank MillerSource : "Writers, Artists Describe State of the Union". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 24, 2007.
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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.”
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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 MillerSource : "Garth Ennis At The Barcelona International Comicon!". MTV Geek Interview, www.mtv.com. April 20, 2011.
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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.”
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“She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.”
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“When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.”
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“Hello, I'm Shellie's new boyfriend and I'm out of my mind. If you so much as talk to her or even think her name, I'll cut you in ways that'll make you useless to a woman.”
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“A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it.”
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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.”
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“Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.”
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“But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.”
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“I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the 'New York Times' to Rupert Murdoch has a point of view and is putting forth their own propaganda. They're stuck with the facts as they are, but the way they interpret and frame them is wildly different.”
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“Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.”
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“People are attempting to bring a superficial reality to superheroes which is rather stupid. They work best as the flamboyant fantasies they are. I mean, these are characters that are broad and big. I don't need to see sweat patches under Superman's arms. I want to see him fly.”
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“And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.”
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