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" People lie when they get upset. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" Back in the olden days when we were rubbing sticks together, everybody wanted to have a comic strip, to live in Westport Connecticut, to have a Jaguar and to have a wife and two and a half kids and to have a girl in town in their studio in Manhattan that they'd romance, and then they'd have people ghost their strip. It was like this big dream. "

" Motion comics are a medium all their own. It is certainly not animation, in which a large number of artists do tens and even hundreds of thousands of drawings. The animation, or 'the reality,' is created in a computer, and the work of the original artist is the work. Nor is it a comic book. You can't turn the pages. You can't read the dialogue. "

" 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. "

" I think that Curt Swan, when he did Superman for the longest time, became the definitive Superman artist, and everybody got it. That made him very, very special in the annals of comic books. "

" 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. "

" It used to be that comic strips were the big thing, and comic books were toilet paper. "

" To me, it's the outstanding people, people like Jack Kirby that really make a difference, that are very, very important. "

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

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

" Some people don't realize that I did most of the 'Deadmans.' People don't know that I wrote two 'Spectres.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" There's a bad thing that we have in America, and that is a slow, sticky way that we get out of prejudice. We get out of it very, very slowly. It's like walking through tar. But we're getting out; things are changing. "

" What's interesting about 'The Brave and Bold #85' is it's a book in which I re-created, or created, Green Arrow. "

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

" You don't get dead and there not be consequences. "

" I did work more realistically: I used real anatomy, faces with expressions - not Dick Tracy with his one slip of the mouth and that's it, but actual expressions on the faces that made the characters look like they were saying what was in the balloons. "

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

" Every business makes big mistakes along the way. "

" 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. "

" One of the reasons that DC, Marvel, and other comic book companies have always asked me to do covers and variant covers is because they know that when they tell me 'icon,' I jump over their words, and I give them an iconic cover - but while I'm doing it, there is going to be an idea there. "

" The 'Superman vs. Muhammad Ali' book was printed in every free country in the world, OK? Now, it's so good in its way that we can go in and make fun of it and feel good about it. "

" I think that we want to believe in Superman. "

" I created the first black superhero who was not a gangbanger or an African chief but was rather a college graduate and a professional, which I think is a big accomplishment. "

" Not too many people draw black people as well as I do. "