Brian Azzarello Quotes
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To ground a character in reality, you have to use shades of gray.
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I have never met a feminist who didn't have a father.
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From a storytelling perspective, perfection is death.
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I'm not the monthly comic guy, and I never really have been.
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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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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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The metro section of the newspaper every day is full of stuff I can use. It's the greatest inspiration for me because it's full of endings. That's where the ends of stories show up.
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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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I'm happy with the way '100 Bullets' ends terribly.
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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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'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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Wonder Woman is not horrible. Her villains should be.
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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.