Frank Miller Quotes

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.

She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.

A man without hope is a man without fear.

Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy.

Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

When you got a condition, it's bad to forget your medicine.

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.

Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for.

'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

The fundament of a superhero is the guy in tights saving innocent people from bad things. It's amazing how infrequently that seems to happen in superhero comics these days.

In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to burn in Hell.

The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.

When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over her.

A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it.

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.

An old man dies. A young woman lives. A fair trade.

What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.

Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.

Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on...none of you are safe.

I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.

Hello, I'm Shellie's new boyfriend and I'm out of my mind. If you so much as talk to her or even think her name, I'll cut you in ways that'll make you useless to a woman.

As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like.

Deadly little Miho. She won't let you feel a thing unless she wants you to. She twists the blade. He feels it.

You can never escape me. Bullets don't harm me. Nothing harms me. But I know pain. I KNOW pain. Sometimes I share it. With someone like you.

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.

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.

I find that if somebody is writing and drawing a comic book, planning it to be a movie and a game at the same time tends to lead to a pretty lame job.

A gun is a liar's weapon

The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again.

I take away his weapon. Both of them.

I'm not going to complain about the fact that people are paying attention to my work. I suppose that wouldn't be fair.

Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you'll take up flying next, like that fellow in Metropolis.

You don't... get it, boy... This isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.

Of course we're Criminals

And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.

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.

I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den.

Nancy's got a guardian angel. Seven feet plus of muscle and mayhem that goes by the name of Marv.

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.

Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

The American conscience died with the Kennedys.

I'll make it. I won't die. I've got too much I have to do to let myself die.

You don't get it boy... this isn't a mudhole... its an operating table. (KRAKKKKK) And I'm the surgeon.

Marv's a guy you've got to be careful around. He doesn't mean any harm, but he causes plenty.

The fire, baby. It'll burn us both. There's no place in this world for our kind of fire. My warrior woman. My valkyrie. You'll always be mine. Always. And never.

She doesn't quite chop his head off.She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.