Brian Azzarello Quotes
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To ground a character in reality, you have to use shades of gray.
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From a storytelling perspective, perfection is death.
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I have never met a feminist who didn't have a father.
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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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I'm not the monthly comic guy, and I never really have been.
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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 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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I'm happy with the way '100 Bullets' ends terribly.
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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.
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Wonder Woman is not horrible. Her villains should be.
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My mother would make a good Wonder Woman.