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
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote reflects the author's preference for complex and flawed characters in storytelling.
Frank Miller expresses his artistic inclination towards creating larger-than-life narratives that feature imperfect, deeply flawed characters. He finds more authenticity and richness in stories that explore the darker aspects of humanity, emphasizing that perfection is not only difficult to achieve but may also lack the depth and relatability that flawed characters bring to the narrative.
Themes
CharactersStorytellingFlawsArtCreativity
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used during a panel discussion about character development in literature.
More from Frank Miller
All quotes →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.
Frank MillerRead
Hell's waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you're here.
Frank MillerRead
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 MillerRead
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 MillerRead
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.
Frank MillerRead
Similar quotes
Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
Edna O'BrienRead
Ay, Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.
William ShakespeareRead
Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.
John GrishamRead
There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.
Richard AttenboroughRead
'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.
Jerry SaltzRead
Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
Susan SontagRead