Frank Miller
Frank Miller
Graphic novel artist whose best known works include Ronin, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth27 January 1957
CityOlney, MD
CountryUnited States of America
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Those of us who wanted to test the boundaries of what a superhero comic book could do, unfortunately broke those boundaries and the results have not all been very good. We pushed against the old walls, and they fell-but nothing much has been built to replace them. And now the roof is leaking and the sewer's backing up.
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We don't have the massive clout that Hollywood does,
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I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there.
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'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call 'Die Hard' a 'comic-book movie,' when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.
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The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy.
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There's a lot of controversy about whether we should put so much emphasis on a single set of tests. Are we allowing teachers to practice the art of education or are we teaching to the test?
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It is, not to put too fine a point on it, a piece of propaganda.
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Or at least the ends justify being really mean!
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In Russian literature, Moscow is a calm city - but St. Petersburg is the place where all the bad things happen.
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If it happens, short term, it will mean a loss of seats. Then, it's a matter of how quickly the other airlines could replace those seats.
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If I could fly, I'd probably have a smile on my face.
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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 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.