Comic Book Quotes - Page 25

• The comic book world is so dangerous, you know what I mean? You say one thing and people - they're ravenous - they are very opinionated fans. But they're great fans.

  Chris Evans

  Book, Mean, People

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• I am not really interested in the comic book movies for example. They send me very violent scripts that don't interest me. One I was sent involved me playing a woman, a mother and wife who gets killed, shot in the stomach. It was a thriller and it did not excite me at all. So I turned it down.

  Kristin Davis

  Mother, Book, Wife

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I always keep some form of cartoon or comic book with me, especially Batman - he's my favorite. The reason I keep them around is that it keeps the kid in me alive. Some older folks, they like to drink - can't wait to get old. Me? I like to stay young. I know I'm going to be get older, but I can at least be young at heart so I read these comic books so I keep myself right on that level of kid to keep me having fun on stage.

  James Monroe Iglehart

  Fun, Book, Heart

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• People who know and read comics know that there's a huge diversity amongst the types of stories. Nobody ever goes 'how many more of these movies based on novels are there going to be?!'. People laugh at that question and they go novels, there are all different types of novels. But there are all different types of comic books, they just happen to have drawings on the cover!

  Kevin Feige

  Book, People, Diversity

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Some of the things I love the most are when a writer or a visionary takes on sort of an iconic character and then spins it. Like with Frank Miller, Batman was this one thing for basically forty years, and then Frank Miller came along and said he can also be this other thing. And Christopher Nolan came along and said he can also be this other thing. The idea of taking iconic comic book characters or superhero characters or mythic characters and subverting the genre or coming up with a new idea is something that's really interesting to me.

  Damon Lindelof

  Book, Character, Interesting

  "The Leftovers: Damon Lindelof On The Guilty Remnant's Fate, Missing Characters And Much More". Interview With Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. April 23, 2017.

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• I have a nineteen-month old daughter. I totally don't mind devoting time to her. When you have a kid, it's hard to go out to the movies. I really don't know what's going on with comic book movies.

  Michael Jai White

  Daughter, Book, Kids

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• American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But Superman is a metaphor. For me, Superman has the same problems we do, but on a Paul Bunyan scale. If Superman walks the dog, he walks it around the asteroid belt because it can fly in space. When Superman's relatives visit, they come from the 31st century and bring some hellish monster conqueror from the future. But it's still a story about your relatives visiting.

  Grant Morrison

  Dog, Powerful, Writing

  "The Super Psyche of Comic Book Shaman Grant Morrison". Interview with Gavin Edwards, www.playboy.com. April 18, 2012.

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• I like the early comic book characters more than the new ones.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Book, Character, Comic

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books, or was a horror buff.

  Chad Lindberg

  Book, Reading, Fans

  "Chad Lindberg Exclusive Interview THE CAPE and I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 7, 2011.

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• There's a Marvel superhero called Black Bolt & his real name is Blackagar Boltagon & that really tells you a lot about superhero comics.

  Jamie McKelvie

  Real, Names, Superhero

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• Look, I like gritty. I write gritty. There is a time and a place for gritty. I'll take my Batman gritty, thank you, and I will acknowledge that such a portrayal means that my 11-year-old has to wait before he sees The Dark Knight. But if Hollywood turns out a Superman movie that I can't take him to? They've done something wrong.

  Greg Rucka

  Writing, Mean, Dark

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• There's a thing that creeps into this conversation ... that if you complain about the depiction of women [in comics], it becomes, 'Well, but ladies - the dudes are idealized too.' And the thing is that the dudes are idealized for strength and the women are idealized for sexual availability. It's very, very different. The women's costumes are cut in such a way that I could give a cervical exam to 90% of our heroines. And I don't have a medical degree! So if I can find it, that's impressive.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Cutting, Availability, Giving

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• There are writers who will do whatever they are told regardless of the circumstances - these are called 'hacks.' Your job isn't to make life difficult for your editor. But once a piece of crap goes out with your name on it, it is gone forever and will haunt you.

  Gail Simone

  Jobs, Editors, Names

  "Gail Simone : Survival Tips for the Newbie Writer" by Gail Simone, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2011.

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• The challenges in taking any IP into any other platform are best met by empowering the individuals that can work best in that area and that is one of the things that I really admire about Marvel as a company. They go out and find the best people, whether it is to draw a comic book or create a television series or make a movie.

  Jeph Loeb

  Book, People, Empowering

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I think that people are really hungry for original content. I think there's a sense of reboots and remakes, and we're lacking in any sense of originality in media. So, I think the people who want something like this which has a graphic novel feel or comic book feel but that is designed and created for the medium of television, I think that is something is very appealing to a lot of people.

  Miles Millar

  Book, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Book, Reading, Hard Work

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The extraordinary thing about comic books and graphic novels is that they cannot exist without the art. If my words disappeared tomorrow, well, whatever. This is a visual medium in which the eye and the mind work together to bear witness to story, to lives.

  Marjorie M. Liu

  Art, Book, Eye

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• You don't want to be slavishly doing the same thing over and over again that everybody else has done, but at the same time, you're conscious of, "This is important. I owe something to my ten year old self right now. I need to respect that." I need for that kid who is obsessively reading comic books, I need there to be something rewarding for him where he's like, I didn't waste my time. I know what this is.

  Matt Nix

  Book, Reading, Kids

  Source: in.ign.com

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• No one is putting comic book writers on the cover of Entertainment Weekly or Vanity Fair. No one cares whether we have cellulite. There are no paparazzi hiding in the bushes of our front yards. Even the wealthiest among us make very little compared to any c-list star. Even the biggest stars in the comics are completely unknown to anyone who doesn't read them.

  John Rozum

  Book, Care, Hiding

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

  Elvis Presley

  Movie, Dream, Believe

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• I'm sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz. I do know the difference between right and wrong, though.

  Harvey Pekar

  Book, Writing, Differences

  "Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me" by JT Waldman, Harvey Pekar, www.guernicamag.com. July 2, 2012.

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• Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Book, Reality

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• I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.

  Edward Said

  Book, Firsts, Remember

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• Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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