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

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.

Number one" leaders never think about positions, but disposition.

The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That's precisely the problem, the deep-rooted assumptions about what is feminine.

The pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity.

Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

I continued a legacy of great skating from this country and I was able to capitalize on the reputation of the Canadian skaters that came before me. I especially mean Brian Orser.

Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.

If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you're gonna make it happen.

Everything I am, everything I'll ever be, I owe to my family, to God's grace and to the people of Indiana.