Quotes from Paul Dini

Jim Henson once allowed me to visit the Muppets on set and spent an entire day showing me how he and the other puppeteers performed Kermit and all the characters! After that, I was lucky enough to work with both George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on many fun animation projects and learned so much from them.

I'm a very visual thinker, so the characters are running through my head, doing what they're doing when I'm writing them. And there'll be moments where I'll just kind of throw a look off to the side as if I'm talking to one of the characters. It's always been something that I've had with me since I was a little kid.

I remember very vividly going to school, being very happy, and then just having guys there who were just out to make my life miserable.

If the opportunity came my way, if somebody wanted me to look over a script or sit in a room in sort of like a brainstorming session... I would certainly be open for that.

'Batman' is pretty much real world-centric.

Nobody loves a good 'Batman' story more than I do.

There was a time I was willing to be a clown for people who I felt were the perfect person for me.

It's wrong to become a bully yourself or to take it out on other people, and in my case, I just retreated to a place where I was safe. And that place was my imagination, books, and television.

'Jingle Belle' spins out of my love for just sitting down and reading a good, fun Sunday morning comic strip panel.

'Batman Beyond' started because we were tossed a curve, because the higher ups at Warner Bros. wanted a different take on him.

I'm not saying I talk to cartoon characters all the time, but the characters are very real to me. In a very non-insane way.

As much as I liked the build-up to Christmas, the week after always socked me with the blues.

Batman's got this whole cloaked 'man of mystery' thing around him and represents a wish fulfillment. He's more driven than Superman yet is also very human.

Jeph Loeb has been great to work with, and he's been really supportive of some really bizarre ideas I've had.

When it's only you that you can rely on, you're surprised at the resilience you have.

Characters do change over time; there are surprises, role reversals, and things like that.

Batman doesn't use a gun. When Bruce Wayne thinks he had to resort to a street thug's level to defend himself and the girl he was rescuing, he decides he can't be Batman anymore.

You don't have a Batman without Bruce Wayne. Batman is the edge or scary image for Bruce to use.

Bruce Wayne needs a sense of humor to do his job. Batman, for a very long time, was going to a very dark place.

If we made the 'Batman' games more realistic, you'd have to be Bruce Wayne for half the game, counting his money and dating supermodels.

One of the things I've learned from animation is that some guys are really good at writing, some guys are really good at design, some guys are really good at directing. It's almost like working in a band - not everybody plays every instrument.

I think nobody knows more about comic book characters than Seth Green. I thought I knew a lot, and he leaves me in the dust.

I looked at comics like a buffet table, where you take a little bit of something and leave the other stuff behind.

There are some short stories in R. Crumb comics that are just wonderful and touch me in ways no other comics do.