I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.
Frank MillerRead
Hell's waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you're here.
Interpretation
Life without purpose can feel empty and frustrating.
This quote by Frank Miller emphasizes the struggle of existing without a clear sense of purpose or direction. It conveys the frustration of waking up each day feeling lost and questioning one's existence, highlighting the importance of finding meaning in life to avoid this emotional turmoil.
In practice
In a motivational speech about finding one's passion.
I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.
My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.
As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like.
The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.
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.
You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.
See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.
You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation.
Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for your opponent. You see the opportunity but also greater limitations than you should. I have always believed in what I do on the chessboard, even when I had no objective reason to. It is better to overestimate your prospects than underestimate them.
Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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