Mark Millar Quotes

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.

If I'm Creating A New Superhero, It Shouldn't Be Any Different From Other Superheroes In Terms Of The Qualities. Obviously The Personality Can Be Different. I Think Traditionally In Comics Women Have Tended To Be A Girlfriend Or The Daughter Of Whoever, Whether It's Even Batgirl As Gordon's Daughter, Or Whatever. There Is That Relation Of The Hero, You Know, Like Superman's Cousin, Supergirl. And That's Great. It's Fantastic To Have A Link To These Amazing Characters, But I Kind Of Like The Idea Of Things Being Something In Their Own Right, Which Is Why I've Always Loved Wonder Woman.

Even When I Was A Little Boy, When I Was Seven, I Absolutely Loved Wonder Woman, And I Saw Her As One Of The Superhero Greats With Superman And Batman, And I Think It's Because She Was Her Own Thing. She Always Felt Like The Real Deal The Same Way That Superman And Batman Did. Whereas The She-hulks And Spider-women And All That Kind Of Thing Felt Like A Continuation Of A Concept.

The Weird Thing Is That Stuart's The One Guy - Stuart [immonen ]and Sean Gordon Murphy, They're The Kind Of Guys You Can Trust, Where You Don't Need To Do That Because Those Guys Are So Incredibly Reliable. They're Just Like Clockwork, They Turn In The Pages Just So Perfectly On Time. But I'm So Paranoid, Because I've Been Burned So Many Times, That I'm Still Even Banking These Guys.

I'm Very Lucky That I Have This Other Career That Runs Alongside My Comic Career, Which Is A Film Career, And I've Been Given This Really Lovely Setup Where They Seem To Make The Movies Very Quickly As Well.

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.

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.

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.

I Always Think It's A Mistake When You Actually Have To Set Books Aside And Actually Sit Down And Research Something. I Always Think They've Got To Come From Within.

Writers Are The Most Terrible Kleptomaniacs.

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.

One Of The Things That Made Star Wars Work Was The Kids Didn't Know Who Their Dad Was.