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1837 Director Quotes

Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.

Back Cause Church Coming
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What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.

Back Bring Dreary Even
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I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.

About Batman Going Older
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I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coats. So that's what I write about.

About Artist Book Car
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It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the course of 'Holy Terror.' There are interludes where there are pictures - cartoon pictures - of modern figures and they are all wordless. It's up to readers to put the words in.

Call Cartoon Cartooning Could
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Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

Cartoonists Come Dirty Draw
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But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

Accused Anybody Being Convince
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I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.

Back Been Boss Brat
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'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

America Clowns False Fed
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3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to burn in Hell.

Atrocity Attacked Burn Country
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When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over her.

Beautiful Beautiful Woman Brush Hand
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'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call 'Die Hard' a 'comic-book movie,' when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.

Book Books Call Come
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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.

After Always Dark Definitely
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I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the character, I think it's a lot of fun, and it's kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you're seeing a different crowd.

Ballpark Batman Character Crowd
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Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

Amazing Beauty Capturing Comics
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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.

Cartoonist Find First Like
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Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.

Anywhere Cinema Hollywood Medium
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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.

Cartoonist CGI Different Done
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The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy.

Against Biggest Bunch Democracy
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What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

About CGI Computer Happened
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Mighty cultures never - are almost never conquered. They crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats because everything isn't working out perfectly every time.

Acting Almost American Because
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We're constantly told that all cultures are equal, and that every belief system is as good as the next. And it led to a kind of - and generally, that America was to be known for its flaws rather than its virtues.

America Belief Constantly Cultures
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When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.

Abroad Accomplished Amazing America
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Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

Made Film Cinemas Love-affair
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Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

Build Large Scale Intense
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Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.

Everything Personal Made Movie
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Art depends on luck and talent.

Art Depend Luck Talent
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You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

Really Have Courageous Instincts
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Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.
Critics Stimulating Realize Better
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I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

Film Ready Able Make
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To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

Make Great Element Well
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If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.

Remembered Really Like Children
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It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.

Disappointing Legs Strong Idea
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My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost.

Goal Life Figure Money
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I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.
More Vivid Imagination Talent
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I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

Never Sloppy People Money
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We do things for good reasons that are bad.

Things Good Reasons Bad
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Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.
Filmmakers Afford Work
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I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

Dependent Business Living Movies
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It takes no imagination to live within your means.
Takes Imagination Means
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I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam.

Used You Love Local
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As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

Make Money Business Subsidize
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I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

Wanted Write Direct Movies
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Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

Listen Rule Learned Business
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A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.

Number Images Certain Beyond
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I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.

Successful Young Enthusiastic Worked
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I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

Artist Value What Doing
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I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.
I Had Teachers Hated
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I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.

Been Kid Moved Friends
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I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.

Teachers Really Singled Discouragement
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