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" I just know that if you make a Superman movie you can't take kids to, you've done something wrong. "
Greg Rucka
Just
You
Wrong
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" I love doing research. It's like cheating, but with permission. "
Greg Rucka
Cheating
Like
Research
" You have to accept that Batman is a fact of life in Gotham City, and on top of that, you have to accept that somehow this city manages to function with a police force that's 90% corrupt. "
Greg Rucka
Top
Accept
City
" When I was in third grade, I would run home - literally run home from school - and if I could make it in time, I could get home and the put the TV on in time to catch the answering machine message at the start of 'The Rockford Files.' "
Greg Rucka
Message
Run
Time
" I come from a prose background. I come from short story background, and that led me into novels. "
Greg Rucka
Background
Short
Me
" What we want to see is stories that are going to be honest stories about the characters that we're telling them about. "
Greg Rucka
About
Honest
See
" For every person who passes on the opportunity to write Spider-Man or Superman, I guarantee there are 5000 hungry writers who would give their eye-teeth to do it. But just because they want to do it, it doesn't mean they are capable of doing it. "
Greg Rucka
Opportunity
Doing
Hungry
" I showed up pretty much at the exact right moment to end up with a lot of work on my plate very quickly, because I was young and foolish, and so I wrote very quickly. "
Greg Rucka
Young
Work
Right
" I think Batman has the Wolverine problem. I think he's overexposed. "
Greg Rucka
Think
Problem
I Think
" Character is made up of a variety of different things. One of those elements is gender. "
Greg Rucka
Different
Variety
Gender
" I tend to see - socially, I don't tend to be myself in a male role. I don't know any other way to put it. "
Greg Rucka
Way
Role
Other
" The stories that are out and the things that have been published are a sample of my interests. There are genres and sub-genres that I haven't waded into but have wanted to, or have waded into in other places but never actually written. "
Greg Rucka
Stories
Places
Out
" To me, the joy you're going to get in a 'Punisher' story is watching him punish incredibly wicked people. Now, if you can add to that an emotional content, wonderful. "
Greg Rucka
Me
People
You
" Comics don't work without the visuals, obviously. "
Greg Rucka
Comics
Work
Without
" The worst thing that can happen for a writer is for a writer to start believing their own press. I think the industry, and the comics industry in particular, is littered with the bodies of writers who believed their own press. And you can see the moment they did, and then the work nosedives. "
Greg Rucka
Own
Moment
Start
" We wanted to talk about death in the DC Universe, and how some people go to get a pass and come back, and some people didn't. That opened up a whole other topic about legacy. We wanted to talk about what was required to be a hero, what were the elements of true heroism? "
Greg Rucka
Hero
Legacy
People
" I think there are certain questions that get asked in comics over and over again, and people want definitive answers, but I feel like there shouldn't be definitive answers. "
Greg Rucka
People
Want
Think
" Every writer has characters that they become attached to and that they feel very strongly about. "
Greg Rucka
Attached
Writer
Feel
" The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old. "
Greg Rucka
Writing
Remember
Old
" Heroes are defined by their villains - Batman is nothing if he doesn't have Two-Face. "
Greg Rucka
Nothing
Heroes
Batman
" I met one of my best resources because I cold-called the local FBI office one day early in my career with questions. The agent who took the call knew someone who knew someone who was ex-Army, trained in personal protection. The resulting introduction was one of the best, most enduring friendships I've ever enjoyed. "
Greg Rucka
Career
Questions
Early
" Every character needs an adversary - one who is both challenging and a contrast for the hero. The best adversaries reveal something about the character they're contrasting. "
Greg Rucka
Contrast
Best
Hero
" If Portland can truly have a true comics show that doesn't become a media show but retains its focus on comics, I think it's going to serve the city well. If this becomes a big show, it's going to bring in a lot of money for the city. "
Greg Rucka
Media
True
Think
" Your ability to name every single variation of Kryptonite and every first issue in which it appears is a great pop quiz skill, but is not a great writing skill, all right? So just because you can do that doesn't mean you know how to write. "
Greg Rucka
Know
Writing
You
" My college senior thesis was going to be on the American private investigator. "
Greg Rucka
Thesis
American
College
" You know how a nonlethal weapon is supposed to work? A nonlethal weapon works on the basis of three things: It needs to deter, and that's normally done through pain, and that pain creates a byproduct, which is fear. "
Greg Rucka
Pain
Fear
Know
" I am the product of Denny O'Neil in many ways, I carry forth a lot of what Denny instilled in me. "
Greg Rucka
Me
Carry
Forth
" When I was in high school, I started writing a serial novel, longhand, set in the Arthurian mythos, and influenced not incidentally by Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The Mists of Avalon.' "
Greg Rucka
High
Writing
Set
" Good fiction can both entertain and light up those dark corners where nice people don't want to go. "
Greg Rucka
Want
Dark
Good
" When we're 16, we have lots of heavy thoughts. And these are the heavy thoughts, where, when we're in our 30s, we look at 16-year olds and sort of scorn it. "
Greg Rucka
Where
Heavy
Thoughts
" I love liminal characters. I love these characters that are outside and enter and consequently are perpetually outsiders, and who hold themselves to a higher standard. "
Greg Rucka
Love
Higher
Hold