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Famous Frank Miller Quotes
“Worth dying for. Worth killing for. Worth going to hell for. Amen.”
Frank Miller book The Hard Goodbye
Source: The Hard Goodbye
“She doesn't quite chop his head off.
She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.”
Frank Miller book The Big Fat Kill
Source: The Big Fat Kill
“Hell’s waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you’re here.”
Frank Miller book The Hard Goodbye
Source: The Hard Goodbye
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 <br class="br">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.”
Frank Miller book Batman: Year One
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 <br class="br">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.
Frank Miller The Dark Knight Returns
Source: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Frank Miller 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.”
Frank Miller book Batman: Year One
Source: Batman: Year One
“An old man dies, a little girl lives. Fair trade.”
Frank Miller book That Yellow Bastard
Source: That Yellow Bastard
“The American conscience died with the Kennedys.”
Frank Miller The Dark Knight Returns
Source: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Frank Miller The Dark Knight Returns
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.
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)
