Top 90 Frank Miller Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

53. “News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don’t agree with it.”

— Frank Miller

54. “I have shown him that a man without hope is a man without fear.”

— Frank Miller

55. “I love the rain. It helps me think.”

— Frank Miller

56. “Return with the shield or on it.”

— Frank Miller

57. “I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.”

— Frank Miller

58. “In the world of comic books, “troublemaker” means someone who has some sense of dignity.”

— Frank Miller

59. “Though surrounded by sinfulness and terror, we must not become so embittered that we take Satan’s methods as our own.”

— Frank Miller

60. “I take his weapons away from him. Both of them.”

— Frank Miller

61. “When I’m writing a comic book, I’m thinking about a character that I’m going to be drawing on the page. I’ve never drawn a character to look like who I want to cast in a movie because I don’t think that way. I’m a real monomaniac. I do one thing at a time.”

— Frank Miller

62. “It’s not movies and it’s not “fine art.” The beauty of a comic is that it’s clear, direct communication. My work is getting simpler and more cartoony because I’m much more interested in communication now than in any illustrative value.”

— Frank Miller

63. “Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can’t look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.”

— Frank Miller

64. “I don’t own an ounce of the work I’ve ever done on ‘Batman,’ and I still work on ‘Batman.’ I love the character, I think it’s a lot of fun, and it’s kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you’re seeing a different crowd.”

— Frank Miller

65. “I’m not going to complain about the fact that people are paying attention to my work. I suppose that wouldn’t be fair.”

— Frank Miller

66. “I find that if somebody is writing and drawing a comic book, planning it to be a movie and a game at the same time tends to lead to a pretty lame job.”

— Frank Miller

67. “Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge ’cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.”

— Frank Miller

68. “But I’m not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody’s ever successfully accused me of being realistic.”

— Frank Miller

69. “When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it’s done in the world, it’s kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.”

— Frank Miller

70. “I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the ‘New York Times’ to Rupert Murdoch has a point of view and is putting forth their own propaganda. They’re stuck with the facts as they are, but the way they interpret and frame them is wildly different.”

— Frank Miller

71. “Miho. You’re an angel. You’re a saint. You’re a blessing from above. You’re Mother Theresa. You’re God.”

— Frank Miller

72. “I guess in my own egotistical way I like to create my own library of Batman books that doesn’t run contrary to a single thing that has been published before, but it also stands on its own.”

— Frank Miller

73. “I don’t do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.”

— Frank Miller

74. “I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.”

— Frank Miller

75. “As a cartoonist, I’m a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they ‘really’ look like.”

— Frank Miller

76. “I can tell you squat about Islamism. But I know a lot about Al Quaeda, and they need to burn in hell.”

— Frank Miller

77. “Remember, America... not Wind like a watch, but Wind... like the air...”

— Frank Miller

78. “The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I’m after. I’ve always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I’ll try a perfect hero, but it’s a real stretch for me. I like ’em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.”

— Frank Miller

79. “What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.”

— Frank Miller

80. “Hollywood is a town; it’s not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.”

— Frank Miller

81. “An old man dies, a young woman lives. Fair trade.”

— Frank Miller

82. “Just one violation may cost you not only money but a lot of time to rebuild what you had in the past.”

— Frank Miller

83. “Correct thoughts will generate correct courses of action, which leads to favorable results. Wrong thoughts will lead to wrong courses of action, which brings about bad results.”

— Frank Miller

84. “Matt Murdock is blind – so he misses the prettiest morning of the year. All he gets is hissing pipes and an East Coast chill that goes straight for the bones.”

— Frank Miller

85. “With a 1:3 ratio, for example, after you win 1 trade, it will take at least 4 losing trades to make you lose overall.”

— Frank Miller

86. “We mourn lives lost. Including our own.”

— Frank Miller

87. “I never enter any trade without correction.”

— Frank Miller

88. “It may either bounce back after touching the level or breaking it and turning the resistance into a support level.”

— Frank Miller

89. “When the price is about to touch a level, you should watch out for any potential candlestick pattern or chart pattern, because these patterns are offering higher chances of winning than ones not presented on any key levels.”

— Frank Miller

90. “The Dark Knight series is all from Batman’s point of view. But if you look at Dark Knight 2, you’ll see a Superman who’s much calmer than the one in the first Dark Knight. Batman and Superman are dead opposites. I love Superman. Do I love Batman more? They’re not people. They’re only lines on paper.”

— Frank Miller