Top 74 Mark Millar Quotes

#1. Naked guy think Hulk stupid?

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#2. I offered them Utopia, but they fought for the right to live in Hell.

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#3. She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4.

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#4. I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.

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#5. One of the things that made Star Wars work was the kids didn't know who their dad was.

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#6. GET OUT OF MY HEAD, YOU STUPID CRIPPLE!

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#7. But I also asked why they didn't chase their dreams. How many rock stars just settled for accountancy? How many astronauts grew up to be psychologists? Other kids were playing Mafia Wars, we were taking down the fucking Mafia and no it wasn't normal. It wasn't even close.

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#8. I just noticed I've been writing lots of female-led things. Two of them haven't been announced yet, but the big Greg Capullo book I'm doing is a female-led story, and I'm doing another series with John Romita which is a female-led story as well.

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#9. Comic artists have always been part of my social circle. I just like hanging out with artists, and I always see them at conventions or a store signing or something. "Hey, we should do something together."

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#10. However, if I can expand this to Top Cow or Avatar I'm helping the sales, however small, on my Marvel books because I'm almost certain to pick up some new readers.

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#11. I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.

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#12. We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.

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#13. I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

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#14. Writers are the most terrible kleptomaniacs.

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#15. Batman: a force of chaos in my world of perfect order. The dark side of the Soviet dream. Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents, they said he was a ghost. A walking dead man. A symbol of rebellion that would never fade as long as the system survived.
Anarchy in black.

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#16. I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.

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#17. Only difference between a dream and a nightmare is how big your balls are, bitch. (The Fox)

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#18. Why train for years to do a job, you bitched about all day? Didn't it make more sense to follow your dreams and maybe do a little good at the same time.

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#19. I was desperate to work with Stuart Immonen, who I have talked with for several years about doing a project together. So just the stars aligned. I knew that Stuart had a little break in his schedule, where he would be willing to do a project with me. So this year I've been very lucky.

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#20. What's a matter Chris? You shitting yourself? You should be!

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#21. The highest form of leadership is one in which a leader raises up other leaders - not as an accident, but as a result of conscious effort.

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#22. There's almost a universe as big as the Marvel Universe with X-Men. I mean, Deadpool is something I think everybody was taken surprise by, except for the people who read the comic book.

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#23. Organizations who win, think deeply, choose wisely, and act decisively.

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#24. Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.

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#25. Why don't you just put the whole world in a bottle, Superman?

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#26. Like most people my age, I merely existed.

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#27. He [Stuart Immonen] and I have known each other over email for 18, 19 years or something, so to finally work with him is like kissing the girl that you always wanted to kiss.

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#28. Receptionist also added super-breath when I offered her twenty bucks.

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#29. I am as resilient as the steel that was once made here, and I am a fighter, in every sense of the word. We all are.

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#30. The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

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#31. What I do with everything is take things out of real life. You encounter all sorts of stories. It's a lot of your friends and family, sometimes there's quite sad episodes in their life and everything. So just little things I've picked up along the years always find a way into all of my stories.

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#32. It's been a very interesting exercise as a writer - writing a little family group, like The Incredibles or The Simpsons or something like that, and setting it in a big Star Wars-type setting. It's been really fun, definitely different from the kind of thing I normally do.

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#33. Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.

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#34. The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.

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#35. What we had yesterday has gone away. What we have today will only last this day. What we will have twomorrow no one can take away. So treasure the moments given, appreciate what is offered.

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#36. It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon.

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#37. At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.

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#38. The one thing we can all relate to is family, and family has its traumas sometimes. Sometimes things don't go well for people. Sometimes things are tough. So everybody kind of knows someone who's been in this situation before, and I think that's what makes it work.

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#39. We've had really good mainstream publicity for these books and both Wanted and Chosen were snapped up as movie deals before each series even ended so I'm honestly just pinching myself.

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#40. I'm just running through this list of potential nannies and wondered if we should go for a superhero this time. Do you think Wolverine would be interested? He seems to be on every other team right now ...

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#41. All my kids love superheroes, but my middle daughter in particular is obsessed with Wonder Woman and Batgirl.

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#42. The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

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#43. I've been doing the Millarworld stuff for decades, and everybody seems really happy that's working on it.

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#44. Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.

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#45. I'm a huge fan of the Rod Serling sci-fi, where they could take the most odd and enormous ideas but ground them in something very human.

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#46. THOU ART NO THOR!

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#47. Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.

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#48. The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

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#49. I've done so many superhero comics, and I've actually just been really excited about sci-fi, and Chrononauts and Starlight were both sci-fi, which I had a great time doing.

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#50. Anytime something becomes a success in this way you always get imitators. I'm an imitator of the guys I love. I imitate people like Frank Miller, who is a huge inspiration to me.

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#51. Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.

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#52. You kind of worry for the characters in a way that you don't normally in sci-fi, because sci-fi tends to be about the ideas, and this is about people.

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#53. Jesus, man. Why do people want to be Paris Hilton and nobody wants to be Spider-Man?

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#54. Would you rather see a super soldier battling Nazis or something more serious? Or lesbians down a coal mine? Generally, the films are engaging in the same way as the comics are. It's no coincidence that the biggest movies are genre-related, whether it's Lord of the Rings or comic books.

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#55. Avengers fucking assemble, asshole!"
- Hit Girl

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#56. It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot ... or cosmic rays or a power ring ... Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.

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#57. Marvel movies, are seeming slightly less exciting now that Star Wars has appeared and everything.

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#58. Ever since 1980, sci-fi has generally been more Bladerunner than Star Wars. People talk about Star Wars being the most influential movie of all time and creating the blockbuster along with Jaws and that sort of thing, but really there's not been a space opera that anyone can go and see.

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#59. No, NAKED GUY'S the stupid one here, naked guy
NAKED GUY WENT AND MADE HULK ANGRY!!

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#60. I think exactly the same qualities as men [women role model needs], exactly the same, which is kindness, courage and intelligence.

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#61. I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

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#62. I think most people know the concept of difficult family situations. So I try to just ground a very big concept in something we can all relate to on some level.

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#63. Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.

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#64. I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.

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#65. I'd love to do something else for Avatar after this.

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#66. Maybe in this Star Wars world maybe subconsciously I was preparing myself. But I've just found all of my ideas I've been coming up with are big sci-fi things, and I wanted to do a big epic, a big space opera, and this is it. This is mine.

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#67. I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.

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#68. I always wondered why nobody did it before me. I mean, all those comic book movies and television shows, you'd think at least one eccentric loner would have stitched himself a costume.

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#69. Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.

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#70. The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.

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#71. Leaders don't ever "arrive." If we ever think we're done, we are done!

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#72. For years I've wanted to work with this guy, so to actually write at the top of my scripts "Empress, Script by Mark Millar, Art by Stuart Immonen" is an absolute pleasure.

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#73. I love the fact that they [girls ]are into Superman and Green Lantern and Batman and everything, and they really do have all those toys as well, but I don't want all their role models to be men.

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#74. Your capacity to grow determines your capacity to lead.

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