Mark Millar Quotes

Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.

I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.

At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.

Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.

Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.

If you feel the need to make everyone happy, you should be a wedding planner not a leader.

Organizations who win, think deeply, choose wisely, and act decisively.

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

All my kids love superheroes, but my middle daughter in particular is obsessed with Wonder Woman and Batgirl.

I am as resilient as the steel that was once made here, and I am a fighter, in every sense of the word. We all are.

The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.

Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.

When you don't have time to do your job, that's a good indication you're playing the wrong game.

I think exactly the same qualities as men [women role model needs], exactly the same, which is kindness, courage and intelligence.

There's almost a universe as big as the Marvel Universe with X-Men. I mean, Deadpool is something I think everybody was taken surprise by, except for the people who read the comic book.

I've been doing the Millarworld stuff for decades, and everybody seems really happy that's working on it.

I think most people know the concept of difficult family situations. So I try to just ground a very big concept in something we can all relate to on some level.

One of the things that made Star Wars work was the kids didn't know who their dad was.

I've done so many superhero comics, and I've actually just been really excited about sci-fi, and Chrononauts and Starlight were both sci-fi, which I had a great time doing.

Marvel movies, are seeming slightly less exciting now that Star Wars has appeared and everything.

I'm a huge fan of the Rod Serling sci-fi, where they could take the most odd and enormous ideas but ground them in something very human.

You kind of worry for the characters in a way that you don't normally in sci-fi, because sci-fi tends to be about the ideas, and this is about people.

I always think it's a mistake when you actually have to set books aside and actually sit down and research something. I always think they've got to come from within.

Writers are the most terrible kleptomaniacs.

Anytime something becomes a success in this way you always get imitators. I'm an imitator of the guys I love. I imitate people like Frank Miller, who is a huge inspiration to me.

For years I've wanted to work with this guy, so to actually write at the top of my scripts "Empress, Script by Mark Millar, Art by Stuart Immonen" is an absolute pleasure.

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

I love the fact that they [girls ]are into Superman and Green Lantern and Batman and everything, and they really do have all those toys as well, but I don't want all their role models to be men.

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.

When you expect the best from people, you will often see more in them than they see in themselves.

Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.

The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.

The highest form of leadership is one in which a leader raises up other leaders - not as an accident, but as a result of conscious effort.

Leaders don't ever "arrive." If we ever think we're done, we are done!

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.

I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.

I don't know, maybe it's just timely, or maybe it's the fact that I live in a house with four women, but I just find my thoughts kind of skewing that direction at the moment.

I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.

She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4.

Jesus, man. Why do people want to be Paris Hilton and nobody wants to be Spider-Man?

He [Stuart Immonen] and I have known each other over email for 18, 19 years or something, so to finally work with him is like kissing the girl that you always wanted to kiss.

It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a power ring...Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.

The heart is a muscle, and you strengthen muscles by using them. The more I lead with my heart, the stronger it gets.

Your capacity to grow determines your capacity to lead.