Grant Morrison: These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other c...

It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban life at the end of the twentieth century...He creates himself each day. He sees himself as the lord of misrule and the world as a theatre of the absurd.

Grant Morrison

theatre perception may

I think that superhero comics in particular are really useful for talking about big emotions and feelings, and personifying and concretizing symbols.

Grant Morrison

superhero talking thinking

I'm at a stage in my career where I don't expect or get too much editorial input into what I'm doing. I have a proven track record of success, so my editors are willing to cut me some slack even when a particular approach is not to their personal taste.

Grant Morrison

editors cutting careers

Sometimes... sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We're inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it's your head, Batman. Arkham is a looking glass... and we are you.

Grant Morrison

glasses dream thinking

Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met along the way.

Grant Morrison

writing numbers character

I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form.

Grant Morrison

form fans art

Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth has been wasted.

Grant Morrison

actors reading names

I think any writer coming on to Batman should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to them. Whatever they think that symbol or character can say.

Grant Morrison

character mean thinking

I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies.

Grant Morrison

celtic growing-up firsts

And I ask him why he cuts his arms with a razor. "Just fo feel. Just to feel something.

Grant Morrison

feels-just razors cutting

It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

Grant Morrison

college believe father

I’m a false icon! The media collaborate in promoting my superficial lifestyle as somehow more valid, more worthy of attention than your real lives! - Gideon Stargrave

Grant Morrison

icons media real

A bullet in the right place can change the world.

Grant Morrison

bullets changing-the-world world

The world gets more like Disneyland every day, and it's the same the other way round. I can't explain what I know. Try explaining RED to a DOG and see how fast he gets bored.

Grant Morrison

bored dog trying

The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since World War II?

Grant Morrison

perfect war needs

I loved IRON MAN: Robert Downey Jr. has been and probably will be my favourite actor for a long time…but IRON MAN, THE INCREDIBLE HULK, SUPERMAN RETURNS and all the others feel a little like Saturday morning cartoons next to the carbon black glory that is 'The Dark Knight.' Trust me, this is the future of this sort of thing.

Grant Morrison

dark morning men

Who needs girls when you've got comics?

Grant Morrison

girl needs

It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?

Grant Morrison

salt sprinkles honey

I won't tell you again! Don't look back! In hell you never look back!

Grant Morrison

you-again hell looks

Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.

Grant Morrison

gotham madness sometimes

These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music.