Mark Millar Quotes

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.
Mark Millar

Good, Matter, Artists

At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.
Mark Millar

Best, Moment, Year

Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.
Mark Millar

Attention, Might, Books

However, if I can expand this to Top Cow or Avatar I'm helping the sales, however small, on my Marvel books because I'm almost certain to pick up some new readers.
Mark Millar

Small, Almost, Books

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.
Mark Millar

Write, Break, Crime

I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.
Mark Millar

Everything, Headache, Advance

I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.
Mark Millar

Love, Character, Writing

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.
Mark Millar

Time, Writing, Scripts

I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.
Mark Millar

Moment, American, Violence

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.
Mark Millar

Dark, Wanted, Matter

I'd love to do something else for Avatar after this.
Mark Millar

Love, After, Else

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.
Mark Millar

Happy, Writing, Wanted

It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon.
Mark Millar

Done, Mad, Universe

Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.
Mark Millar

Writing, America, Shame

Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.
Mark Millar

Same, Fact, Books

The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.
Mark Millar

Forget, Two, Big

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
Mark Millar

Different, Books, Publishers

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.
Mark Millar

Potential, Breadth, Factor

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.
Mark Millar

Finding, Projects, Trick

Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.
Mark Millar

Money, Team, Creative

Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.
Mark Millar

Wanted, American, Individual

We've had really good mainstream publicity for these books and both Wanted and Chosen were snapped up as movie deals before each series even ended so I'm honestly just pinching myself.
Mark Millar

Good, Before, Wanted

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: December 24, 1969

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