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To ground a character in reality, you have to use shades of gray.
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I like alleys. They are the backdoor to everything.
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Good people struggle against what's imperfect about them. The people that we call 'bad' people embrace that kind of stuff, embrace the darker side.
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Basically, I think that Gotham is all of our urban nightmares and fears made into reality. Instead of hearing footsteps from behind you while you walk down the streets, turning around and finding nobody there, there is somebody there.
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When something is well-crafted, you know it, and the enjoyment comes from experiencing it.
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I really like language - and slang in particular, and just the shorthand we use when we communicate with people.
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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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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.
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One of the problems in modern comics is that they keep referencing themselves endlessly.
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Wonder Woman is not horrible. Her villains should be.
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I'm happy with the way '100 Bullets' ends terribly.
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'100 Bullets' is a novel on its own. 'Brother Lono,' other than the main character, has nothing to do with '100 Bullets.'
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I have never met a feminist who didn't have a father.
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When I write, I'm talking to myself constantly to make sure that it sounds OK; it has kind of a nice rhythm and a nice jump to it.