148 Quotes by Mark Millar

There’s almost a universe as big as the Marvel Universe with X-Men. I mean, Deadpool is something I think everybody was taken surprise by, except for the people who read the comic book.

First, believe in your ability to create the future. That’s what leaders do-that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been written-it is written by leaders.

I just noticed I’ve been writing lots of female-led things. Two of them haven’t been announced yet, but the big Greg Capullo book I’m doing is a female-led story, and I’m doing another series with John Romita which is a female-led story as well.

I’m just running through this list of potential nannies and wondered if we should go for a superhero this time. Do you think Wolverine would be interested? He seems to be on every other team right now...

The one thing we can all relate to is family, and family has its traumas sometimes. Sometimes things don’t go well for people. Sometimes things are tough. So everybody kind of knows someone who’s been in this situation before, and I think that’s what makes it work.

For years I’ve wanted to work with this guy, so to actually write at the top of my scripts “Empress, Script by Mark Millar, Art by Stuart Immonen” is an absolute pleasure.

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.

You kind of worry for the characters in a way that you don’t normally in sci-fi, because sci-fi tends to be about the ideas, and this is about people.

Leaders don’t ever “arrive.” If we ever think we’re done, we are done!