List of Mark Millar Quotes

Anytime Something Becomes A Success In This Way You Always Get Imitators. I'm An Imitator Of The Guys I Love. I Imitate People Like Frank Miller, Who Is A Huge Inspiration To Me.

If I'm Creating A New Superhero, It Shouldn't Be Any Different From Other Superheroes In Terms Of The Qualities. Obviously The Personality Can Be Different. I Think Traditionally In Comics Women Have Tended To Be A Girlfriend Or The Daughter Of Whoever, Whether It's Even Batgirl As Gordon's Daughter, Or Whatever. There Is That Relation Of The Hero, You Know, Like Superman's Cousin, Supergirl. And That's Great. It's Fantastic To Have A Link To These Amazing Characters, But I Kind Of Like The Idea Of Things Being Something In Their Own Right, Which Is Why I've Always Loved Wonder Woman.

Even When I Was A Little Boy, When I Was Seven, I Absolutely Loved Wonder Woman, And I Saw Her As One Of The Superhero Greats With Superman And Batman, And I Think It's Because She Was Her Own Thing. She Always Felt Like The Real Deal The Same Way That Superman And Batman Did. Whereas The She-hulks And Spider-women And All That Kind Of Thing Felt Like A Continuation Of A Concept.

The Weird Thing Is That Stuart's The One Guy - Stuart [immonen ]and Sean Gordon Murphy, They're The Kind Of Guys You Can Trust, Where You Don't Need To Do That Because Those Guys Are So Incredibly Reliable. They're Just Like Clockwork, They Turn In The Pages Just So Perfectly On Time. But I'm So Paranoid, Because I've Been Burned So Many Times, That I'm Still Even Banking These Guys.

I'm Very Lucky That I Have This Other Career That Runs Alongside My Comic Career, Which Is A Film Career, And I've Been Given This Really Lovely Setup Where They Seem To Make The Movies Very Quickly As Well.

You Kind Of Worry For The Characters In A Way That You Don't Normally In Sci-fi, Because Sci-fi Tends To Be About The Ideas, And This Is About People.

It's Been A Very Interesting Exercise As A Writer - Writing A Little Family Group, Like The Incredibles Or The Simpsons Or Something Like That, And Setting It In A Big Star Wars-type Setting. It's Been Really Fun, Definitely Different From The Kind Of Thing I Normally Do.

What I Do With Everything Is Take Things Out Of Real Life. You Encounter All Sorts Of Stories. It's A Lot Of Your Friends And Family, Sometimes There's Quite Sad Episodes In Their Life And Everything. So Just Little Things I've Picked Up Along The Years Always Find A Way Into All Of My Stories.

I Always Think It's A Mistake When You Actually Have To Set Books Aside And Actually Sit Down And Research Something. I Always Think They've Got To Come From Within.

Writers Are The Most Terrible Kleptomaniacs.

The One Thing We Can All Relate To Is Family, And Family Has Its Traumas Sometimes. Sometimes Things Don't Go Well For People. Sometimes Things Are Tough. So Everybody Kind Of Knows Someone Who's Been In This Situation Before, And I Think That's What Makes It Work.

One Of The Things That Made Star Wars Work Was The Kids Didn't Know Who Their Dad Was.

What I Wanted To Do Was Drown Something Enormous, Like A Star Trek Or Star Wars Kind Of Space Opera-type Thing, But Actually Make It About Someone Who Was Just Married To The Wrong Guy, And That Guy Just Happens To Be This Amazing Dictator, And She Has To Get Her Kids As Far Away As Possible From This Guy. So Something That Could Almost Be A Tv Movie, If You'd Ground It And Set It In Wisconsin Or Something Like That, But To Give It This Enormous Setting.

When That Character And The X-force Appeared, They Took The Comic World By Storm. You Have To Look At Those Numbers. And You See That That Isn't Rob Liefeld's Only Creation. There's All These Other Things, Like Cable And Domino. There's So Many Things That Actually Could Be Fascinating Onscreen And Unlike Anything You've Ever Seen Before Onscreen. So I Think Fox Is In A Really Nice Position Where They've Got Something That Feels As Wide And Different As The Marvel Universe.

I'm A Huge Fan Of The Rod Serling Sci-fi, Where They Could Take The Most Odd And Enormous Ideas But Ground Them In Something Very Human.

The Big Thing Is It's A Domestic Drama. Everything Else In Science Fiction Tends To Be High-concept. Really For The Last 40 Years Or So I Think Sci-fi's Been A Little Cold And A Little Inhuman Quite Often - Certainly Since The 1980s - And I Really Wanted To Do Something That Almost Felt Like A Regular, Real-life Drama But Just Set It In A Sci-fi Setting. I Think The Best Stuff Is Always Like That.

Maybe In This Star Wars World Maybe Subconsciously I Was Preparing Myself. But I've Just Found All Of My Ideas I've Been Coming Up With Are Big Sci-fi Things, And I Wanted To Do A Big Epic, A Big Space Opera, And This Is It. This Is Mine.

Marvel Movies, Are Seeming Slightly Less Exciting Now That Star Wars Has Appeared And Everything.

I've Done So Many Superhero Comics, And I've Actually Just Been Really Excited About Sci-fi, And Chrononauts And Starlight Were Both Sci-fi, Which I Had A Great Time Doing.

I Was Desperate To Work With Stuart Immonen, Who I Have Talked With For Several Years About Doing A Project Together. So Just The Stars Aligned. I Knew That Stuart Had A Little Break In His Schedule, Where He Would Be Willing To Do A Project With Me. So This Year I've Been Very Lucky.

Would You Rather See A Super Soldier Battling Nazis Or Something More Serious? Or Lesbians Down A Coal Mine? Generally, The Films Are Engaging In The Same Way As The Comics Are. It's No Coincidence That The Biggest Movies Are Genre-related, Whether It's Lord Of The Rings Or Comic Books.

I Think Most People Know The Concept Of Difficult Family Situations. So I Try To Just Ground A Very Big Concept In Something We Can All Relate To On Some Level.

Oddly, I Think If You Look At Comic Books, You Look At The Shelves In The Store, It's Predominantly Male Characters, Historically. But If You Look Outside The Window It's 52-percent Female, And Something Odd Is Going On There. So I Do Think It's Your Responsibility As A Writer, Really, To Create Stuff That Little Girls Can Get Into Too. I Want My Daughters To Have Role Models That Are Female.

I Love The Fact That They [girls ]are Into Superman And Green Lantern And Batman And Everything, And They Really Do Have All Those Toys As Well, But I Don't Want All Their Role Models To Be Men.