148 Quotes by Mark Millar

When you don’t have time to do your job, that’s a good indication you’re playing the wrong game.

I was desperate to work with Stuart Immonen, who I have talked with for several years about doing a project together. So just the stars aligned. I knew that Stuart had a little break in his schedule, where he would be willing to do a project with me. So this year I’ve been very lucky.

I always think it’s a mistake when you actually have to set books aside and actually sit down and research something. I always think they’ve got to come from within.

Maybe in this Star Wars world maybe subconsciously I was preparing myself. But I’ve just found all of my ideas I’ve been coming up with are big sci-fi things, and I wanted to do a big epic, a big space opera, and this is it. This is mine.

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

Like most people my age, I merely existed.

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.

Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they’re living, so they buy a cookbook with pictures and imagine themselves as part of that life.

It’s been a very interesting exercise as a writer – writing a little family group, like The Incredibles or The Simpsons or something like that, and setting it in a big Star Wars-type setting. It’s been really fun, definitely different from the kind of thing I normally do.