In his interview with RT, Moore said he probably "was in a bad mood about comics” when he made the remark, but stood by his comparison of characters like Daredevil or Batman to the Klansmen riding to quash a black riot in the Griffith movie.
"I think that there is something that possibly dates back to... the Ku Klux Klan intervention in ‘Birth of a Nation', the idea of dressing up in a mask, so that what you do doesn't get back to you,” Moore said.