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Writers are the most terrible kleptomaniacs.
I'd love to do something else for Avatar after this.
Your capacity to grow determines your capacity to lead.
Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.
The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.
Others control our opportunities, we control our readiness.
The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.
I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.
Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.
Leaders don't ever "arrive." If we ever think we're done, we are done!
Organizations who win, think deeply, choose wisely, and act decisively.
I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.
I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.
Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.
Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.
Jesus, man. Why do people want to be Paris Hilton and nobody wants to be Spider-Man?
She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4.
One of the things that made Star Wars work was the kids didn't know who their dad was.
The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.
If you feel the need to make everyone happy, you should be a wedding planner not a leader.
The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.
The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.
If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.
You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.
When you don't have time to do your job, that's a good indication you're playing the wrong game.
Marvel movies, are seeming slightly less exciting now that Star Wars has appeared and everything.
When you expect the best from people, you will often see more in them than they see in themselves.
Many of our leadership practices have gone from being tried and true to being tired and tarnished.
I've been doing the Millarworld stuff for decades, and everybody seems really happy that's working on it.
The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.
All my kids love superheroes, but my middle daughter in particular is obsessed with Wonder Woman and Batgirl.
If you don't demonstrate leadership character, your skills and your results will be discounted, if not dismissed.
I am as resilient as the steel that was once made here, and I am a fighter, in every sense of the word. We all are.
The heart is a muscle, and you strengthen muscles by using them. The more I lead with my heart, the stronger it gets.
I think exactly the same qualities as men [women role model needs], exactly the same, which is kindness, courage and intelligence.
I'm a huge fan of the Rod Serling sci-fi, where they could take the most odd and enormous ideas but ground them in something very human.
The highest form of leadership is one in which a leader raises up other leaders - not as an accident, but as a result of conscious effort.
You kind of worry for the characters in a way that you don't normally in sci-fi, because sci-fi tends to be about the ideas, and this is about people.
Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.
Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.
I think most people know the concept of difficult family situations. So I try to just ground a very big concept in something we can all relate to on some level.
Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.
However, if I can expand this to Top Cow or Avatar I'm helping the sales, however small, on my Marvel books because I'm almost certain to pick up some new readers.
I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.
I always think it's a mistake when you actually have to set books aside and actually sit down and research something. I always think they've got to come from within.
Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.
For years I've wanted to work with this guy, so to actually write at the top of my scripts "Empress, Script by Mark Millar, Art by Stuart Immonen" is an absolute pleasure.
I've done so many superhero comics, and I've actually just been really excited about sci-fi, and Chrononauts and Starlight were both sci-fi, which I had a great time doing.
He [Stuart Immonen] and I have known each other over email for 18, 19 years or something, so to finally work with him is like kissing the girl that you always wanted to kiss.