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I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, an

I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights. – Frank Miller

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The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. Hes dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that hes a hero the whole time. – Frank Miller

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Comics are so full of amazing work. And I cant look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty. – Frank Miller

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When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good its done in the world, its kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally. – Frank Miller

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In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. Its a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us. – Wesley Morris

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When I go to movies and I love the movie, its because it feels like it articulated something about how were living now, and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it. – Josh Radnor

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