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. View quote
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I have a reputation for writing all kinds of hard-core, violent things. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm not the monthly comic guy, and I never really have been. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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DC characters are from a different era than Marvel characters. View quote
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Civil war, now, 100 years in the future - the things that motivate human beings, they don't change emotionally. View quote
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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. View quote
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One of the problems in modern comics is that they keep referencing themselves endlessly. View quote
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I really like language - and slang in particular, and just the shorthand we use when we communicate with people. View quote
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From a storytelling perspective, perfection is death. View quote
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Wonder Woman is not horrible. Her villains should be. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Once you're president, there's blood on your hands - there's no way around it. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Painted talking heads is just boring. View quote
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Everybody's got a father. Even if he's not the nicest guy in the world. View quote
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