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Famous Frank Miller Quotes
“She doesn't quite chop his head off.
She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.”
Source: The Big Fat Kill
Frank Miller Quotes
Interview on Talk of the Nation (NPR) as quoted in "NPR Interview with 300’s Frank Miller" The Atlasphere (10 March 2007) http://www.theatlasphere.com/metablog/612.php
Context: For some reason, nobody seems to be talking about who we’re up against, and the sixth century barbarism that they actually represent. These people saw people’s heads off. They enslave women, they genitally mutilate their daughters, they do not behave by any cultural norms that are sensible to us. I’m speaking into a microphone that never could have been a product of their culture, and I’m living in a city where three thousand of my neighbors were killed by thieves of airplanes they never could have built.
“Batman is a hero who wishes he didn't have to exist.”
About Batman's motives, as quoted by David Mazzuccheli in his Afterword to Batman: Year One.
Context: He's clearly a man with a mission, but it's not one of vengeance. Bruce is not after personal revenge... He's much bigger than that; he's much more noble than that. He wants the world to be a better place, where a young Bruce Wayne would not be a victim... In a way, he's out to make himself unnecessary. Batman is a hero who wishes he didn't have to exist.
"Frank Miller: I Stole From The Best!" COMICDOM interview (22 January 2006), edited by Dimitris Sakaridis http://www.comicdom.gr/interviews.php?id=17&lang=en
Context: My Sin City heroes are knights in dirty, blood-caked armor. They bring justice to a world that gives them no medals, no praise, no reward. That world, that city, often kills them for their brave service.
Source: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Source: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
“Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you'll take up flying next, like that fellow in Metropolis.”
Source: Batman: Year One
“An old man dies, a little girl lives. Fair trade.”
Source: That Yellow Bastard
Source: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
“In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.”
Source: Eisner/Miller (2005), p. 198
Source: Eisner/Miller (2005), p. 95
Response to the question "Is There A God?" by Stephen Thompson AVClub (9 October 2002) http://www.avclub.com/content/node/24569
Talk about w:Holy Terror and response to accusations of racism.
p 276
Eisner/Miller (2005)
On Holy Terror, a story where Batman takes on Al-Qaeda, as quoted in "Comic book hero takes on al-Qaeda" BBC News (15 February 2006) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4717696.stm
On the comics industry. p. 111
Eisner/Miller (2005)
