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 MillerRead
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.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that moral choices are made based on ethical principles rather than personal gain.
Frank Miller's quote challenges the conventional belief that individuals refrain from committing crimes purely out of fear of consequence. Instead, he suggests that true morality stems from an understanding of right and wrong, highlighting the inherent value of ethical behavior over the allure of potential rewards from wrongdoing.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about the importance of ethics in leadership.
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.
Hell's waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you're here.
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.
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.
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.
You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.
If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
It is hard to know when we have done enough for the Atonement to change our natures and so qualify us for eternal life. And we don't know how many days we will have to give the service necessary for that mighty change to come. But we know that we will have days enough if only we don't waste them.
When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there's only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules.
If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
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