Nothing worse than when a 6 acts like a 10.
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.
Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.
I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.
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.
Marvel movies, are seeming slightly less exciting now that Star Wars has appeared and everything.
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.
After you date a player or two it's nice to just chill with a guy that can keep it basic.
I don't regret the fervor, because I do believe, in the African American community but also for other communities, and I know from talking to people, for communities around the world, the election of an African American to the most powerful office on Earth meant things had changed, and not just in superficial ways. That in some irreversible way the world was different.
But as a skeptic I am dubious about science as about everything else, unless the scientist is himself a skeptic, and few of them are. The stench of formaldehyde may be as potent as the whiff of incense in stimulating a naturally idolatrous understanding.
The artist must operate on the assumption that the public consists in the highest order of individual; that he is civilized, cultured, and highly sensitive both to emotional and intellectual contexts. And while the whole public most certainly does not consist in that sort of individual, still the tendency of art is to create such a public - to lift the level of perceptivity, to increase and enrich the average individual's store of values. . . I believe that it is in a certain devotion to concepts of truth that we discover values.