American - Writer | August 11, 1962 -
Nobody's angry all the time, unless you're a psycho.
Brian Azzarello
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I like alleys. They are the backdoor to everything.
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Good people struggle against what's imperfect about them. The people that we call 'bad' people embrace that kind of stuff, embrace the darker side.
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To ground a character in reality, you have to use shades of gray.
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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.
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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.
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These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with.
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When something is well-crafted, you know it, and the enjoyment comes from experiencing it.
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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.
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Noir deals with the disenfranchised: people who can't catch a break under normal circumstances. In noir books, you root for these people, but you know they are going to fail. That's what makes them so compellingly human. I can relate to that kind of stuff.
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It is our mistakes that make us interesting, right?
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I'm interested in damaged people because we've all been roughed up in one way or another.
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