"Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can’t look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty."
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"I always knew it would come down to you and the big blue school boy. Planet's too big for the BOTH of you. When it all comes down, I want a piece of him. A small piece, will do? For OLD TIMES, sake, you know..it still hurts when its cold."
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"Of course we're Criminals"
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"And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman."
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"You don't... get it, boy... This isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon."
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"Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you'll take up flying next, like that fellow in Metropolis."
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"I take away his weapon. Both of them."
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"The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again."
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"Nancy's got a guardian angel. Seven feet plus of muscle and mayhem that goes by the name of Marv."
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"I guess in my own egotistical way I like to create my own library of Batman books that doesn't run contrary to a single thing that has been published before, but it also stands on its own."
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"Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere."
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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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"But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic."
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"I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the character, I think it's a lot of fun, and it's kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you're seeing a different crowd."
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"Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality."
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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."
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"Working with the kind of talent that I've gotten to work with, like the cast of Sin City, it makes me think probably more fully dimensionally about what is going on behind their eyes. But I draw the way I draw, and ain't nothing gonna change that. Although, I draw Marv and I think, "Boy, I could throw a little Mickey [Rourke] in there.""
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