What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't
I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.
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.
A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.
I know you're Belgian, that's where those waffles come from.
A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever it is one is concerned with.
I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.