American Quotes

It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

I only eat things that you don't have to kill.

I make my relationships at work.

I know I'll work, but not when or where. I never know what to pack.

I have fun at work.

I don't put together cars, I put together people.

I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

Acting is pretty much my whole life.

When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right.

What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.

This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.

The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.

The New Look of Batman is more illustrative and realistic.

Much is written about the Batman because he is publicly exposed in print. Very little is known personally about his creator, because I haven't given out that many interviews.

It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

In the Golden Age of Batman, I penciled, inked, and lettered my strip by myself.

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you've heard my side.

I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.

How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.

It took them a while to catch on that Batman would be the greatest.

Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.