Quotes from Brian Azzarello

DC characters are from a different era than Marvel characters.

Everybody's got scars. It's not so unique.

These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with.

If you read any sort of, like, military general autobiographies or biographies, most of them never wanted to fight, you know? It's necessary. War is necessary.

'100 Bullets' is a novel on its own. 'Brother Lono,' other than the main character, has nothing to do with '100 Bullets.'

I like everything that is wrong about Chicago.

I didn't really like superheroes. I liked monsters and war comics.

Superman is pretty much the way he was - you know - what he's always been. A lot of the Marvel characters are products of their time. I think Batman, as a character, has been able to adapt; he's pretty malleable.

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.

One of the problems in modern comics is that they keep referencing themselves endlessly.

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

I have to challenge myself, and I have to challenge the reader. We should be weaving and working on new stories and not the same story over and over.

I think portraying the Joker's point of view would do a disservice to that character. As soon as you get inside his head he would lose so much power.

I like being a cult figure.

Painted talking heads is just boring.

When something is well-crafted, you know it, and the enjoyment comes from experiencing it.

For me, a story always goes out of a mistake. Somebody makes a mistake, and that becomes the story. Probably that explains why my series are kind of dark: because there's a problem to begin with.

I have never met a feminist who didn't have a father.

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

Paris is wild; it's decadent... it's so many things.

I'm happy with the way '100 Bullets' ends terribly.

I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.

Characters with questionable morals are sexy.

It's depicted in comics as, like, this gung-ho, 'Let's die in battle, in glory' idea, because that's just the genre we're in. But that's not what war really is.