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
writing home lions
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.
jobs book writing
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.
writing journalism shows
The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
book writing thinking
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.
new-york writing men
I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.
spin wild
The world, she do spin mad. These are wild times.
crosses imagine man passion powerful rage woman
Emotionally, it's really raw. Imagine the powerful rage when someone crosses the passion between a man and a woman or a man and his city.
care five graphic material novels second
Five would take care of all the graphic novels ? but there's new material that I'm writing for the second one.
comic crime excellent favorite grew mickey raymond reading
I've always wanted to do crime stories. That's my favorite thing to read, ... I grew up reading Mickey Spillane, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. I always thought they would make excellent comic books.
concerned happy outcome reached
We are very happy that they reached an agreement. Obviously, we were concerned about the outcome of the negotiations.
anybody far line night people seen wanting
I have been there at night working and people have come by wanting to help. As far as anybody being out of line down there, I haven't seen it.
allow body mind settle word
The operational word is relax. Allow your body or your mind to settle down.
america belief constantly cultures flaws good known led rather system
We're constantly told that all cultures are equal, and that every belief system is as good as the next. And it led to a kind of - and generally, that America was to be known for its flaws rather than its virtues.
comic designed harder japanese less realized repeat slowing somewhere
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.