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"...[I]f they'd happen to kings or queens in antiquity, [they] would have been the subject of classic tragedy. But they didn't. They happened to working-class scumbags in this forgotten area that nobody cared about. And this is the way it goes with history. We only ever get the history of Church and State. Because none of the rest of us matter. Yet, there is this fantastic history... in people's neighbourhoods."

"I think it's as interesting to depict sex as it is to depict a couple of people trying to rip each other's windpipes out."

"The Marvel Universe, the DC Universe, how could they possibly be a patch upon the Fiction Universe?"

"We're living in a world of fact, and we've got our heads full of fiction."

"These figures have real weight. They might be just made out of words and paper, but their effect in the world can be massive, if they've got the right kind of mass, the right kind of gravity and momentum."

"I suspect that if we had the power to look inside Hitler's head, into the heads of the greatest monsters in history, you would find heroes."

"The plot isn't the most important thing. It's the resonances. The real story's going on in the subtext... between the lines."

"Embarrass the hell out of whoever you like -- life is far too serious to be taken seriously."