Scott Snyder famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

- If I tell you, will you let met go? - You bet, partner. [...] - You promised! - Nope. I said "you bet." You did ... and you lost.
-- Scott Snyder

#Mets #Said #Lost
Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.
-- Scott Snyder

#Night #Long #Together
I always, always got to be the last man standing.
-- Scott Snyder

#Men #Lasts #Last Man Standing
That's what everyone thinks--they think being a cop is about punishing people for doing wrong. But that's not true. You know it isn't. It's about believing in people, believing in the good. In the will of people to do what's right despite their own instincts.
-- Scott Snyder

#Believe #Thinking #People
Sometimes, all it takes is a few words to change your life.
-- Scott Snyder

#Few Words #Sometimes #Changing Your Life
I read THE WICKED + THE DIVINE last night, and no matter how high your expectations are for it, its better.
-- Scott Snyder

#Night #Expectations #Wicked
Beware The Court of Owls, that watches all the time, ruling Gotham from a shadowed perch, behind granite and lime. They watch you at your hearth, they watch you in your bed speak not a whispered word of them or they'll send the Talon for your head.
-- Scott Snyder

#Owl #Gotham #Bed
You take the thing that is the worst thing that could have happened to you, the worst challenge in your life, and you turn it into fuel. You don't give up. And that's what Gotham is about.
-- Scott Snyder

#Giving Up #Don't Give Up #Challenges
I think thing that makes Batman so endlessly interesting is that he's one of the most flawed and deeply human characters, even though he seems completely the most inhuman and infallible in costume. Psychologically he's one of the most complicated in both his strengths and his weaknesses. For me, one of his great strengths and weaknesses is that confidence. His emotional self-protection is one of the things that makes him heroic and sacrificing; he doesn't have a personal life. He sacrifices those to be the best hero he can be.
-- Scott Snyder

#Hero #Character #Sacrifice
I had to fight for wingdings. Batman needs to curse sometimes!
-- Scott Snyder

#Fighting #Needs #Sometimes
The thing with Superman is that he's completely emotionally open to the reader. Meaning what he tells you is what he's feeling; there's a transparency there. And what he tells other characters is usually as transparent as can be. What he says he believes in. So there's an honesty that is both really inspiring writing the character. One thing I love about Clark Kent is that there is a badassery that you don't see a lot. Even as Superman, he's always kind of restraining himself. When you challenge him, I think there's nobody that has a stronger spine than Superman.
-- Scott Snyder

#Honesty #Believe #Writing
A post-9/11, modern take being Batman training people to be the heroes they know they can be on their own.
-- Scott Snyder

#Hero #People #Training
What I'm interested in exploring with Clark Kent is when you have the power to do something that goes beyond what you think is the right thing to do and the difficulty of that. Meaning, to be Superman also means to withhold a lot of power. He could reshape the world however he thinks it should be. But Superman doesn't, historically, do those things. He allows a certain level of self-governing and a certain level of independence, I think out of an admiration for humanity. Because he's inspired by the best in us and he challenges us to inspire each other to be the best that we can be.
-- Scott Snyder

#Mean #Thinking #Self
Batman is the one you go to for answers and Clark Kent is the one you go to to really do the right thing. He stands as a shining example of what to do in any situation.
-- Scott Snyder

#Shining #Example #Answers
Vampires as creatures have evolved over time as different vampire bloodlines have hit different populations of humans. Every once in a while the blood will make something new and mutate into a new species with different powers, abilities, weakness, physical characteristics, and so on. I don't want to give anything away, but there are whole species and branches that date all the way back to pre-modern times.
-- Scott Snyder

#Blood #Giving #Vampire
Jordie Bellaire knows how to tell a story with color.
-- Scott Snyder

#Color #Stories #Know How
I spoke to Geoff Johns a lot. We went back and forth, and found a way to bring up the best qualities in his personality and psychology and also fill a niche in Gotham that we've never seen. It became about is there a way to really plant this hero in Gotham and say this is someone you haven't seen before - both in terms of who they are as a person and who they are as a hero.
-- Scott Snyder

#Hero #Personality #Psychology
I got fascinated by the idea that our universe itself is comprised mostly of dark matter and dark energy. Things that we can't perceive at all, and we've only discovered that relatively recently. So it's almost as if our universe is the foam on the ocean of things that we can't see, or know, or perceive, and yet we feel the affects of those things right and left.
-- Scott Snyder

#Ocean #Dark #Energy
"The Cursed Wheel," which Declan [Shalvey] is starting here, is the one constant. It's a story in the backups that will go through the whole year and be the one consistent narrative. It anchors the entire [book].
-- Scott Snyder

#Book #Anchors #Years
"The Cursed Wheel" is the heart of the whole year on All-Star. All-Star is a series that's largely compartmentalized so that every artist can reinvent a villain and have Batman go up against the villain in a way that's pretty singular.
-- Scott Snyder

#Stars #Heart #Artist
This one's like that because it's about these things that I think weigh heavily on me in terms of my own failings and the things that I worry about and my personal demons. Is the sum of my personal demons greater than the things that I like about myself? Is this moment - because it's a particulary high tension, scary moment for all of us in terms of the global climate - going to bring out the best or the worst in us?
-- Scott Snyder

#Thinking #Worry #Scary
If I know what something's about, and I can always have that touchstone, I feel like I can reach for really ridiculous humor and also go really dark in terms of the things I'm afraid of.
-- Scott Snyder

#Dark #Ridiculous #Term
Having that North Star for every story [about Batman] is really key for me. It allows me to go farther and farther off the reservation.
-- Scott Snyder

#Stars #Keys #Stories
Duke is a character who believes that heroism and the Robin mantle can exist entirely separate from Batman himself.
-- Scott Snyder

#Believe #Character #Heroism
On this global stage, Superman is someone that we can all look up to and he's almost kind of ultimately American.
-- Scott Snyder

#Looks #Kind #Look Up
I love The End of the Batman story. I have my original copy, the hardcover, at my house from when I was a kid, whenever that was,'88 or '89. It was very influential to me because it was so explicit in touching on the notion that Batman might be mad and that he might belong in the mad house.
-- Scott Snyder

#Kids #Mad #House

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