74 Quotes by Brian Azzarello

To ground a character in reality, you have to use shades of gray.

This thing is such a ripple, the way lives are affected by gentrification. On one hand, yes, you're cleaning up this area, you're making it more livable for people. But you're not saying anything about the people that live there.

I'm interested in damaged people because we've all been roughed up in one way or another.

I know '100 Bullets' is not what traditionally people think of as comics.

Noir deals with the disenfranchised: people who can't catch a break under normal circumstances. In noir books, you root for these people, but you know they are going to fail. That's what makes them so compellingly human. I can relate to that kind of stuff.

We finished 'Spaceman,' and before we were even done with that, we had already been talking about what we were going to do next.

I'm a Cubs season ticket holder.

One of the reasons Batman works as a character is that it's not beyond possibility that he could exist - you could become Batman if you had a billion dollars at your disposal. There's nothing paranormal or superhuman or supernatural about that character. And I think his villains work the same way. You could be one of his villains just as easily.

It is our mistakes that make us interesting, right?