Brian Azzarello quotes - page 2

To ground a character in reality, you have to use shades of gray. (Brian Azzarello)

I think portraying the Joker's point of view would do a disservice to that character. As soon as you get inside his head he would lose so much power.

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I have a reputation for writing all kinds of hard-core, violent things.

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What's the trick to writing a good bad guy? Well, for me, it's always been the idea that you pit yourself against authority, you know? I think that's what it takes - and then you can write villainous characters.

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These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with.

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I'm not the monthly comic guy, and I never really have been.

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Like, why is Batman so relevant? It's because he gets reinvented constantly. There are a lot of stories you can tell with that character.

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I think a lot of superheroes seem to have the same value system; they just have a different costume. They're all doing exactly the same thing.

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DC characters are from a different era than Marvel characters.

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Civil war, now, 100 years in the future - the things that motivate human beings, they don't change emotionally.

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Hollywood, they love everything, but they move like molasses. They'll option anything - the worst idea in the world will get optioned just because they want to keep the other person from getting that idea. (Brian Azzarello)

Superman is pretty much the way he was - you know - what he's always been. A lot of the Marvel characters are products of their time. I think Batman, as a character, has been able to adapt; he's pretty malleable.

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One of the problems in modern comics is that they keep referencing themselves endlessly.

Brian Azzarello

I really like language - and slang in particular, and just the shorthand we use when we communicate with people.

Brian Azzarello

From a storytelling perspective, perfection is death.

Brian Azzarello

Wonder Woman is not horrible. Her villains should be.

Brian Azzarello

I have to challenge myself, and I have to challenge the reader. We should be weaving and working on new stories and not the same story over and over.

Brian Azzarello

Noir deals with the disenfranchised: people who can't catch a break under normal circumstances. In noir books, you root for these people, but you know they are going to fail. That's what makes them so compellingly human. I can relate to that kind of stuff.

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Once you're president, there's blood on your hands - there's no way around it.

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This thing is such a ripple, the way lives are affected by gentrification. On one hand, yes, you're cleaning up this area, you're making it more livable for people. But you're not saying anything about the people that live there.

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When I was writing about Gotham in 'Broken City,' I was writing about Chicago. I just substituted the names. (Brian Azzarello)

Paris is wild; it's decadent... it's so many things.

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Painted talking heads is just boring.

Brian Azzarello

Everybody's got a father. Even if he's not the nicest guy in the world.

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Brian Azzarello

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Occupation: American Writer
Born: August 11, 1962
Quotes count: 49

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