Top 90 Frank Miller Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “A man without hope is a man without fear.”

— Frank Miller

2. “The world doesn’t make sense until you force it to.”

— Frank Miller

3. “The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He’s dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he’s a hero the whole time.”

— Frank Miller

4. “An old man dies, a little girl lives. Fair trade.”

— Frank Miller

5. “I’m the goddamn Batman.”

— Frank Miller

6. “The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.”

— Frank Miller

7. “Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That’s one of the things they’re there for.”

— Frank Miller

8. “Give them nothing, but take from them everything.”

— Frank Miller

9. “You can never escape me. Bullets don’t harm me. Nothing harms me. But I know pain. I KNOW pain. Sometimes I share it. With someone like you.”

— Frank Miller

10. “DWIGHT: Stay smart. Stay cool. It’s time to prove to you’re friends that you’re worth a damn. Sometimes that means dying. Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.”

— Frank Miller

11. “I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion’s den.”

— Frank Miller

12. “I’ll make it. I won’t die. I’ve got too much I have to do to let myself die.”

— Frank Miller

13. “You were the one they used against us, Bruce. The one who played it rough. When the noise started from the parents’ groups and the sub-committee called us for questioning... you were the one who laughed... that scary laugh of yours. “Sure, we’re criminals”, you said. “We’ve always been criminals”. “We have to be criminals”. – Kal-El aka Clark Kent aka Superman.”

— Frank Miller

14. “Of course we’re Criminals.”

— Frank Miller

15. “In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.”

— Frank Miller

17. “His helmet was stifling, it narrowed his vision. And he must see far. His shield was heavy. It threw him off balance. And his target is far away.”

— Frank Miller

18. “Hell’s waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you’re here.”

— Frank Miller

19. “Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.”

— Frank Miller

20. “I want you to remember, Clark. In all the years to come, in your most private moments, I want you to remember, my hand, at your throat, I want you to remember, the one man who beat you.”

— Frank Miller

21. “The rain on my chest is a baptism – I’m born again.”

— Frank Miller

22. “Hello, I’m Shellie’s new boyfriend and I’m out of my mind. If you so much as talk to her or even think her name, I’ll cut you in ways that’ll make you useless to a woman.”

— Frank Miller

23. “Go now, run along and tell your Xerxes that he faces free men here, not slaves.”

— Frank Miller

24. “I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.”

— Frank Miller

25. “The time has come. You know it in your soul. For I am your soul... You cannot escape me... You are puny, you are small – you are nothing – a hollow shell, a rusty trap that cannot hold me – Smoldering, I burn you – burning you, I flare, hot and bright and fierce and beautiful – You cannot stop me – not with wine or vows or the weight of age – You cannot stop me, but still you try – still you run – You try to drown me out... but your voice is weak...”

— Frank Miller

26. “Dames. Sometimes all they got to do is let it out and a few buckets later there’s no way you’d ever know.”

— Frank Miller

27. “My Sin City heroes are knights in dirty, blood-caked armor. They bring justice to a world that gives them no medals, no praise, no reward. That world, that city, often kills them for their brave service.”

— Frank Miller

28. “She doesn’t quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.”

— Frank Miller

29. “I moved to New York and was told, “Go back home. We don’t need you. Go pump gas. You’re from Vermont. We’ve got no use for you. You’re not drawing guys in tights.” So, I learned how to draw guys in tights, and I put them in as many crime situations as I could.”

— Frank Miller

30. “Deadly little Miho. She won’t let you feel a thing unless she wants you to. She twists the blade. He feels it.”

— Frank Miller

31. “When you got a condition, it’s bad to forget your medicine.”

— Frank Miller

32. “Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can’t see the enemy.”

— Frank Miller

33. “The fire, baby. It’ll burn us both. There’s no place in this world for our kind of fire. My warrior woman. My valkyrie. You’ll always be mine. Always. And never.”

— Frank Miller

34. “The fundament of a superhero is the guy in tights saving innocent people from bad things. It’s amazing how infrequently that seems to happen in superhero comics these days.”

— Frank Miller

35. “Marv’s a guy you’ve got to be careful around. He doesn’t mean any harm, but he causes plenty.”

— Frank Miller

36. “He’s clearly a man with a mission, but it’s not one of vengeance. Bruce is not after personal revenge... He’s much bigger than that; he’s much more noble than that. He wants the world to be a better place, where a young Bruce Wayne would not be a victim... In a way, he’s out to make himself unnecessary. Batman is a hero who wishes he didn’t have to exist.”

— Frank Miller

37. “A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it.”

— Frank Miller

38. “The most questionable thing I did was make Superman a government agent. If this had been a Superman story, I’d never have done that – and I know that, because I have a Superman story I want to tell someday. In this story, Batman was the hero, so the world was built around him.”

— Frank Miller

39. “The American conscience died with the Kennedys.”

— Frank Miller

40. “Mighty cultures never – are almost never conquered. They crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats because everything isn’t working out perfectly every time.”

— Frank Miller

41. “My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with – crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That’s not why we don’t do it. We don’t do it because it is wrong.”

— Frank Miller

42. “People are attempting to bring a superficial reality to superheroes which is rather stupid. They work best as the flamboyant fantasies they are. I mean, these are characters that are broad and big. I don’t need to see sweat patches under Superman’s arms. I want to see him fly.”

— Frank Miller

43. “When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over her.”

— Frank Miller

44. “Nancy’s got a guardian angel. Seven feet plus of muscle and mayhem that goes by the name of Marv.”

— Frank Miller

45. “I’m a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coats. So that’s what I write about.”

— Frank Miller

46. “Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you’ll take up flying next, like that fellow in Metropolis.”

— Frank Miller

47. “A gun is a liar’s weapon.”

— Frank Miller

48. “What’s happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.”

— Frank Miller

49. “I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing Sin City. When I first got to New York I was swiftly informed that they only did guys in tights.”

— Frank Miller

50. “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.”

— Frank Miller