105 Quotes by Paul Dini

As a writer, every time I create a character, I try to go for something to captivate the audience in some way. It's also an extension of how the audience would like to see themselves.

Mickey Mouse did not stay the little squeaky guy in 'Steamboat Willie.' He went on to have many different versions.

In every story I've written with Batman, there's an element of justice - you never want to have the story end on a defeatist or a cynical note.

A lot of times, female characters - particularly the villains - come off as very one-dimensional. They get the short shrift in that they're only given the snappy comeback, or they're relegated to a very stereotypical role. I want to know what's driving them - that's what's really interesting.

I get it, cops deal with a lot, but at the same time, we crave justice, and we do want to believe things are going to be all right.

I've always felt in my own small, little way that if I could just write a story where it works out well, where the scales of justice are balanced, then that's something that I do really love to see in the world.

I was working in cartoons. I could go to Comic-Con, buy the Hal Jordan ring, I could buy animation cels, but at the end of the day, I come back to an empty apartment. I had a life that was only around me, and when I was broken, my world was broken.

If you let tragedies stop you along the way, then you're never going to grow as a person.

You don't have to limit yourself or feel that you've been limited by an act of cruelty.