Frank Miller
Frank Miller
Graphic novel artist whose best known works include Ronin, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth27 January 1957
CityOlney, MD
CountryUnited States of America
rain baptism born
The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again.
flying next metropolis
Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you'll take up flying next, like that fellow in Metropolis.
jobs book reality
Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality.
writing journalism shows
The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
practice cinema towns
Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.
being-real trying vote
But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.
new-york thinking views
I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the 'New York Times' to Rupert Murdoch has a point of view and is putting forth their own propaganda. They're stuck with the facts as they are, but the way they interpret and frame them is wildly different.
stupid character mean
People are attempting to bring a superficial reality to superheroes which is rather stupid. They work best as the flamboyant fantasies they are. I mean, these are characters that are broad and big. I don't need to see sweat patches under Superman's arms. I want to see him fly.
ifs
And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.
running book library
I guess in my own egotistical way I like to create my own library of Batman books that doesn't run contrary to a single thing that has been published before, but it also stands on its own.
jobs book writing
I find that if somebody is writing and drawing a comic book, planning it to be a movie and a game at the same time tends to lead to a pretty lame job.
writing home lions
I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den.
eye boys thinking
Working with the kind of talent that I've gotten to work with, like the cast of Sin City, it makes me think probably more fully dimensionally about what is going on behind their eyes. But I draw the way I draw, and ain't nothing gonna change that. Although, I draw Marv and I think, "Boy, I could throw a little Mickey [Rourke] in there."
best create efforts keeps leaves narrative pages political reason thoughts throw turning ultimately
I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there.