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" Characters with questionable morals are sexy. "
Morals
Characters
Questionable
" Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in. "
Really
Times
Well
" Good people struggle against what's imperfect about them. The people that we call 'bad' people embrace that kind of stuff, embrace the darker side. "
Good
Good People
People
" Hollywood, they love everything, but they move like molasses. They'll option anything - the worst idea in the world will get optioned just because they want to keep the other person from getting that idea. "
Want
Love
World
" If you read any sort of, like, military general autobiographies or biographies, most of them never wanted to fight, you know? It's necessary. War is necessary. "
Never
War
You
" I have a reputation for writing all kinds of hard-core, violent things. "
Kinds
Things
Writing
" I like alleys. They are the backdoor to everything. "
Like
Everything
" I'm happy with the way '100 Bullets' ends terribly. "
Ends
Bullets
Happy
" I'm interested in damaged people because we've all been roughed up in one way or another. "
Damaged
Because
Been
" I'm usually done working by Happy Hour. "
Happy
Done
Hour
" I really like language - and slang in particular, and just the shorthand we use when we communicate with people. "
Language
Use
Slang
" I think a lot of superheroes seem to have the same value system; they just have a different costume. They're all doing exactly the same thing. "
Value
Think
Doing
" I think portraying the Joker's point of view would do a disservice to that character. As soon as you get inside his head he would lose so much power. "
Character
Lose
Power
" I think the Joker resonates with people as much as Batman does. "
Joker
Much
People
" It's depicted in comics as, like, this gung-ho, 'Let's die in battle, in glory' idea, because that's just the genre we're in. But that's not what war really is. "
Die
War
Like
" Like, why is Batman so relevant? It's because he gets reinvented constantly. There are a lot of stories you can tell with that character. "
Why
Character
Like
" My mother would make a good Wonder Woman. "
Make
Good
Wonder
" Nobody's angry all the time, unless you're a psycho. "
Psycho
Angry
Nobody
" Noir deals with the disenfranchised: people who can't catch a break under normal circumstances. In noir books, you root for these people, but you know they are going to fail. That's what makes them so compellingly human. I can relate to that kind of stuff. "
Know
I Can
Circumstances
" One of the reasons Batman works as a character is that it's not beyond possibility that he could exist - you could become Batman if you had a billion dollars at your disposal. There's nothing paranormal or superhuman or supernatural about that character. And I think his villains work the same way. You could be one of his villains just as easily. "
Work
You
Nothing
" Superman is pretty much the way he was - you know - what he's always been. A lot of the Marvel characters are products of their time. I think Batman, as a character, has been able to adapt; he's pretty malleable. "
You
Know
Character
" The metro section of the newspaper every day is full of stuff I can use. It's the greatest inspiration for me because it's full of endings. That's where the ends of stories show up. "
Every Day
Newspaper
Me
" These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with. "
Bad People
Comfortable
Bad
" This thing is such a ripple, the way lives are affected by gentrification. On one hand, yes, you're cleaning up this area, you're making it more livable for people. But you're not saying anything about the people that live there. "
Saying
Ripple
Way
" To ground a character in reality, you have to use shades of gray. "
Character
Reality
Shades
" When something is well-crafted, you know it, and the enjoyment comes from experiencing it. "
Something
You
Enjoyment
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