American - Writer | August 7, 1957 -
If your child has something creative they really want to do, it's up to you, their parent, to help make that happen.
Paul Dini
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I grew up loving cartoons, comics, magic, and writing.
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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.
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One Thanksgiving weekend, I had a lost weekend at a friend's place with 'Grand Theft Auto.'
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'Batman Beyond' started because we were tossed a curve, because the higher ups at Warner Bros. wanted a different take on him.
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I remember when I saw 'The Dark Knight' movie, and I was sitting there watching it, and there actually came one or two places where I had trouble divorcing myself from the reality of the locations because it was filmed in Chicago, and I know that city quite well.
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I think that when you've got a world in which it's plausible to have a guy dressed as a giant bat and fight evil clowns and other nightmarish freaks, I think the world has to be visually a little more arresting than a regular world.
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That's the thing about writing for a lot of the villains is that, as a writer, you kind of have to put the best part of your own personality aside and instead focus on whatever little strange quirks you may have in your personality.
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Hugo Strange is interesting in the sense that he's a master manipulator. He doesn't really engage Batman in any sort of physical way. His weapon is his mind, and he's very incisive and clever: he reads people and sizes them up almost instantly.
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I always think of the Joker as the ultimate bully. Nothing he says is funny except to him.
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Nobody loves a good 'Batman' story more than I do.
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You don't have a Batman without Bruce Wayne. Batman is the edge or scary image for Bruce to use.
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