- I figured Daredevil must be Catholic because only a Catholic could be both an attorney and a vigilante.
- You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.
- I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing 'Sin City'. When I first got to New York I was swiftly informed that they only did guys in tights.
- I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.
- [about his inspirations] I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coat. So that's what I write about.
- [on Batman Begins (2005)] "I totally thought they did a damned good job. It was the first "Batman' movie I've genuinely liked. I sat there, I watched it, and I came out of there going, 'Well done, man.' Sure, they used my stuff - they used everybody's stuff, but they used my stuff a lot - but they did it well, and that's all I care about. It was Batman. What I mean by that is, I thought the character was true. You understand, when I work on a character, I have a very, very hard time seeing anybody else's interpretation. I get very possessive. But when I went out to see this thing, I said, 'This is a pretty cool Batman.' I wasn't sitting there going, 'This is a merchandising tool.' I felt like it really had heart and substance, and Christian Bale with no doubt performed the best Batman I have ever seen".
- The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.
- {On Matt Murdock} "Matt should have been a villain. He had a horrible childhood, his romantic life is the worst! Oh sure, the girls look great, but they end up dead or killing him or something, but somehow this guy redeems himself and moves ahead."
- What I'm after when I draw my pictures is your guts, I want you to feel something. I don't want you to like me necessarily. Its the same with my characters. And what I'm after when I draw is evocation, it's not pretty. I love beauty, I don't care about pretty.
- Sometimes a solitary voice can be the best one."
- I wanted to recapture the feelings of DC comics from when I was growing up.
- News objectivity is a 20th century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.
- In the world of comic books, 'troublemaker' means someone who has a sense of dignity.
- "As soon as you start to write about what everybody likes, you cease to be a journalist. From this moment on wards you work in show business.'
- I don't really plan on running out of material because cause I'm still doing the comics. There's material in my head that could go on forever.
- I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.
- It was said DareDevil grew up in Hell's Kitchen, an amazing name for a neighborhood. But that opened a Pandora"s box of all the crime stuff I wanted to do. I borrowed liberally from Will Eisner's The Spirit and turned DareDevil into a crime comic.
- "The comics I read as a kid were all about guys in tights. But here was a guy who wore a fedora. He fought crime like they did in Marvel and DC. But he did it in the real world. I had just turned 12 when I discovered The Spirit, and it was a strange coincidence. At the same time I discovered girls I feel out of love with guys in tights.
- I've always wanted to do crime stories. That's my favorite thing to read. I grew up reading Mickey Spillane, Raymond Candler and Dashiell Hammett. I always thought they would make excellent comic books.
- I realized when I was doing Sin City that I found American and English comics too wordy, too constipated, and Japanese comics to be too empty. So I was attempting to do a hybrid.
- I'm not a conservative. I'm a libertarian.
- When you got a condition, its bad to forgot your medicine.
- {On moving to Hollywood} I'm a spoiled brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.
- I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn't do anything. I mean, he's blind. It wasn't that he could fly. His major power was an impediment. So I was intrigued. When I took over he was kind of like Spider-Man lite, but I was able to project lot of my catholic imagery onto it. And I'd always wanted to do a crime comic.
- {On detective noir} "This great universe of dark characters, with their long trench coats and big guns , and all the beautiful woman, helped focus me."
- {On what his mother did when he got hurt} "She would throw me in the bathtub-I was only five years old-wash off my head, give me butterfly stitches, and send me off to play again."
- {On Neal Adams} "He told me I was just no damn good, and I would never be any good. But my problem is I got fired from every other I ever had. So it was either comics or nothing."
- {On working in Hollywood} You've got to always be afraid of the words I love you, which means I've got the dagger in your back and I'm about to twist it."
- {On Robert Rodriguez} "With Robert, I discovered not just a good partner and a good friend, I found another brother."
- "People are attempting to bring a superficial reality to superheroes which is rather stupid. They work best as the flamboyant fantasies they are. I mean, these are characters that are big and broad. I don't need to see sweat patches under Superman's arms. I want to see him fly.
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