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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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Whats happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen. – Frank Miller

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One of my movies was called True Lies. Its what the Democrats should have called their convention. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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I really love the independent movies and I just think that sometimes when they throw a lot of money into it and a lot of special effects and a lot of stunts that you lose the connection, the human connection and I personally love movies that are about the human connection. – Jane Seymour

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