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" 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. "
Brian Azzarello
Character
Lose
Power
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" I have a reputation for writing all kinds of hard-core, violent things. "
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" 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. "
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" To ground a character in reality, you have to use shades of gray. "
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" My mother would make a good Wonder Woman. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Characters with questionable morals are sexy. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Love
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" 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. "
Brian Azzarello
Good
Good People
People
" Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in. "
Brian Azzarello
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Times
Well
" I think the Joker resonates with people as much as Batman does. "
Brian Azzarello
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Much
People
" 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. "
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Character
Like
" I'm usually done working by Happy Hour. "
Brian Azzarello
Happy
Done
Hour
" 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. "
Brian Azzarello
You
Know
Character
" I'm interested in damaged people because we've all been roughed up in one way or another. "
Brian Azzarello
Damaged
Because
Been
" These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with. "
Brian Azzarello
Bad People
Comfortable
Bad
" 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. "
Brian Azzarello
Work
You
Nothing
" I like alleys. They are the backdoor to everything. "
Brian Azzarello
Like
Everything
" 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. "
Brian Azzarello
Know
I Can
Circumstances
" When something is well-crafted, you know it, and the enjoyment comes from experiencing it. "
Brian Azzarello
Something
You
Enjoyment
" Nobody's angry all the time, unless you're a psycho. "
Brian Azzarello
Psycho
Angry
Nobody
" I'm happy with the way '100 Bullets' ends terribly. "
Brian Azzarello
Ends
Bullets
Happy
" 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. "
Brian Azzarello
Value
Think
Doing