#ff

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. ↗

— Frank Miller

#batman #character #crowd #different #done

I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights. ↗

— Frank Miller

#bunch #came #chandler #comics #crime

I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the 'New York Times' to Rupert Murdoch has a point of view and is putting forth their own propaganda. They're stuck with the facts as they are, but the way they interpret and frame them is wildly different. ↗

— Frank Miller

#everyone #facts #forth #frame #i

Where I would fault President Bush the most was that, in the wake of 9/11, he motivated our military, but he didn't call the nation into a state of war. And he didn't explain that this would take though a communal effort against common foe. ↗

— Frank Miller

#bush #call #common #communal #effort

In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born. ↗

— Frank Miller

#bad habits #before #born #could #created

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. ↗

— Henry Miller

#citizens #everyday #legal #legal system #mystery

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. ↗

— Henry Miller

#acts #difference #hero #immense #involved

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. ↗

— Henry Miller

#difference #doctrine #evil #example #forces

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things. ↗

— Henry Miller

#american way #cut #looking #oceans #off

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive. ↗

— Henry Miller

#carries #dangerous #dead #different #evil