A biography for Brian Azzarellohasn’t been written yet.
“DC characters are from a different era than Marvel characters.”
“Superman is pretty much the way he was - you know - what he's always been. A lot of the Marvel characters are products of their time. I think Batman, as a character, has been able to adapt; he's pretty malleable.”
“'100 Bullets' is a novel on its own. 'Brother Lono,' other than the main character, has nothing to do with '100 Bullets.'”
“I like everything that is wrong about Chicago.”
“Believe it or not, but 'White Heat' and 'Little Caesar' keep dancing around in my brainpan while I'm writing 'Moonshine.'”
“I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.”
“When I write, I'm talking to myself constantly to make sure that it sounds OK; it has kind of a nice rhythm and a nice jump to it.”
“My mother would make a good Wonder Woman.”
“Everybody's got a father. Even if he's not the nicest guy in the world.”
“These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with.”
“Like, why is Batman so relevant? It's because he gets reinvented constantly. There are a lot of stories you can tell with that character.”
“Civil war, now, 100 years in the future - the things that motivate human beings, they don't change emotionally.”
“For me, a story always goes out of a mistake. Somebody makes a mistake, and that becomes the story. Probably that explains why my series are kind of dark: because there's a problem to begin with.”
“Basically, I think that Gotham is all of our urban nightmares and fears made into reality. Instead of hearing footsteps from behind you while you walk down the streets, turning around and finding nobody there, there is somebody there.”
“I'm happy with the way '100 Bullets' ends terribly.”
“Nobody's angry all the time, unless you're a psycho.”
“If there's nothing interesting about a character, people leave because there's no desire to see what happens.”
“Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in.”
“I know '100 Bullets' is not what traditionally people think of as comics.”
“I'm kind of a graphic novel ambassador.”