Frank Miller Quotes
Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality.
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Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
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What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.
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The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
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To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
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If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
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I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy.
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?
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Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why I think so many really powerful novelists can't write a play - because they don't understand that it's spoken - that it hits the air. They don't get that.
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Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.
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All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.
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You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.
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I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school.
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Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality.
