Brian Azzarello Quotes
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Writing 'The Spirit' is really fun.
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It's depicted in comics as, like, this gung-ho, 'Let's die in battle, in glory' idea, because that's just the genre we're in. But that's not what war really is.
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Paris is wild; it's decadent... it's so many things.
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Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in.
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Why do something that's already been done?
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We finished 'Spaceman,' and before we were even done with that, we had already been talking about what we were going to do next.
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If you read any sort of, like, military general autobiographies or biographies, most of them never wanted to fight, you know? It's necessary. War is necessary.
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I'm interested in damaged people because we've all been roughed up in one way or another.
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I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.
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I like everything that is wrong about Chicago.
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For me, a story always goes out of a mistake. Somebody makes a mistake, and that becomes the story. Probably that explains why my series are kind of dark: because there's a problem to begin with.
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I know '100 Bullets' is not what traditionally people think of as comics.
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When I was writing about Gotham in 'Broken City,' I was writing about Chicago. I just substituted the names.
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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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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'm always interested in using comics in different ways.
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I'm kind of a graphic novel ambassador.
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People have told me that the dialogue in '100 Bullets' is very realistic. I don't agree.
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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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Once you're president, there's blood on your hands - there's no way around it.
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I have a reputation for writing all kinds of hard-core, violent things.
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Denny O'Neil did some great things with Joker - I thought Greg Rucka used him really well in 'Gotham Central.'
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Nobody's angry all the time, unless you're a psycho.
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Painted talking heads is just boring.