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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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Im a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But Id been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene… I just thought Id go back and draw my comics and have a happy life. – Frank Miller

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It was said Daredevil grew up in Hells Kitchen, an amazing name for a neighbourhood. But that opened a Pandoras box of all the crime stuff I wanted to do. I borrowed liberally from Will Eisners The Spirit and turned Daredevil into a crime comic. – 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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