Frank Miller Quotes (28 Quotes)

The American conscience died with the Kennedys.

This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle - broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I surely would ... ... but I'm a man of thirty - of twenty again. The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again ...

I'm finishing the script right now for Sin City 2. I can't wait to get back behind the camera. If I have my way, there's going to be five films. But that's if I have my way Five would take care of all the graphic novels. But there's new material that I'm writing for the second one. There'll probably also be a separate graphic novel that I'll do. It's a Nancy Callahan story that I've been wanting to do.

Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.

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.

I don't really plan on running out of material 'cause Im still doing the comics. There's material in my head that could go on forever.

I totally thought they did a damned good job on that movie, ... I sat there, I watched it, and I came out of there going, 'Well done, man.' Sure, they used my stuff - they used everybody's stuff, but they used my stuff a lot - but they did it well, and that's all I care about.

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.

It spans generations. We have parents and children who play, high school students. It's a good, wholesome atmosphere.

Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.

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.

For them, it's wild stuff.

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.

I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing Sin City. When I first got to New York I was swiftly informed that they only did guys in tights.

We don't have the massive clout that Hollywood does,

We are very happy that they reached an agreement. Obviously, we were concerned about the outcome of the negotiations.

When asked Do you foresee any future movie projects you'd be interested in working on, perhaps adapting more of your own works for the screen ... Try and stop me.

The world, she do spin mad. These are wild times.

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

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.

What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.

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.

The operational word is relax. Allow your body or your mind to settle down.

The fundament of a superhero is the guy in tights saving innocent people from bad things. It's amazing how infrequently that seems to happen in superhero comics these days.

In Russian literature, Moscow is a calm city - but St. Petersburg is the place where all the bad things happen.

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

Five would take care of all the graphic novels but there's new material that I'm writing for the second one.

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.