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" Nobody is looking for work who doesn't need work. That's why we look for work. "

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" I think, sometimes, if you get too much attention, then everybody watches you more closely, and they make these broad generalizations about you that aren't really true. "

" I know Coney Island more than I know Queens and Brooklyn! And I understand everything about it - Coney Island is my home. "

" I'm not someone who complains in any way about how things move forward, unless somebody actually does a really crappy job. "

" I have always felt that effect covers are very good covers. They bring you into the story if you pay attention to them. "

" I did the X-Men, and I plotted the stories, and Roy Thomas dialogued them. And that first set of comic books that I did are the plot that the first X-Men movie was taken from, where Magneto invents a machine that turns regular humans into mutants. That's my idea. "

" 'The Dark Knight Rises,' it turns out, is a classic Batman epic. "

" I don't get involved in criticizing or extolling really good artists who do their job. That's for other people. "

" I really kind of always wondered, if I did Superman, what I would do, and what I would be able to do, because it's a little harder for me, being kind of a realistic guy, to imagine doing a character who almost has no limits to his powers. "

" What populates a comic-book convention? Well there's actors, and there's dealers, and there's comic-book artists and writers, and there's cosplay people, toy sales people, people who are selling trading cards, and people selling swords. It's not a flea market. "

" Nothing is gained by not being kind and courteous. "

" The thing about advertising is that you make more money. You can put kids through college so they don't come out with loans. My kids don't, and my grandkids don't, and advertising paid for that. "

" Times have changed. And as the audience changes, so do the superheroes. "

" Sometimes you're forced to do the cover before the story is done. "

" When I was asked by Pacific Comics for an original creator-owned series, my first choice of those several characters was Ms. Mystic. Since I always try to advance the work of other younger creators, I asked the young Mike Nasser if he'd like to join me in this project. He said yes. Mike created nothing! "

" I want a Superman that men will look up to - that somehow he manages to go out and work out and add muscles to his body that he wasn't born with necessarily, but that developed - as a person who takes care of himself and takes care of his health. "

" You could say everybody's a fan of Jack Kirby. I would say I'm a fan of Jack Kirby. I'm a fan of Jack Kirby the man. "

" I live in New York and California, and I get to travel. "

" Of all the mutants on Earth, Professor X could easily pass as a human. "

" My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels. "

" People lie when they get upset. "

" People are different from one another. That's what makes the world good. That's what makes the world great. "

" Everybody's 'odyssey' is a little bit different. Batman's is his own and unique to him. "

" One of the things people think about me is that I don't do deadlines. But if you look at all the books I've ever done, they're all sequential every month. There might have been glitches along the way. But almost all of my books appeared sequentially. "

" What's happened is that every time I go to a convention or go into a comic book shop is that people drag me off into a corner and beat me up and go, 'When are you going to do Batman again?' "

" People tend not to want to question dogma. But I'm afraid of dogma. "

" It may be that a majority of superheroes are white males. But that's because they used to all be white males, except for Wonder Woman and Black Canary and maybe one or two others. Now there are Spanish, Puerto Rican comic book superheroes, black superheroes, and women superheroes. "

" I'm a fan of Superman as created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Remember that Jerry and Joe created a character that was the biggest superhero of all. "

" When I did get into comic books, it was after a whole other career, and when I got into comic books, they didn't even know who I was. "

" The fights that I had with DC and Marvel, I won. And guess what? They profited by it. "

" I think of myself as a storytelling, and one of the reasons why people have held my stuff close to them is because it's one thing to draw pretty pictures, and it's another thing to create a story. That's what I've always done, whether it be for advertising clients or commercial clients or comic books. My hand is in there, and I am the storyteller. "