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Not who you're looking for? Others named Frank Miller: American cryptographer · Canadian politician, former Premier of Ontario (1927-2000) · United States Army Medal of Honor recipient · editorial cartoonist

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🎬 Filmography

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Cursed

2020 · Creator

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

2014 · Director

The Spirit

2008 · Director · as Liebowitz

Sin City

2005 · Director

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{{Infobox comics creator | image = FrankMiller JimLee DC's 2018PopUpShop2.jpg | caption = Miller at SXSW 2018 | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Olney, Maryland, U.S. | nationality = American | area = Writer, penciller, inker, film director | cartoonist = y | write = y | art = | pencil = y | ink = y | edit = | publish = | letter = y | color = | alias = | notable works = The Dark Knight ReturnsBatman: Year OneDaredevilElektraWolverineRonin300Sin City Cursed | awards = Awards | website = frankmillerink.com }} Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American comic book artist, comic book writer, and screenwriter known for his comic book stories and graphic novels such as his run on Daredevil, for which he created the character Elektra, and subsequent Daredevil: Born Again, The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Year One, Sin City, and 300. Miller is noted for combining film noir and manga influences in his comic art creations. He said: "I realized when I started Sin City that I found American and English comics be too wordy, too constipated, and Japanese comics to be too empty. So I was attempting to do a hybrid." Miller has received every major comic book industry award, and in 2015 he was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame. Miller's feature film work includes writing the scripts for the 1990s science fiction films RoboCop 2 and RoboCop 3, sharing directing duties with Robert Rodriguez on Sin City and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, producing the film 300, and directing the big screen adaptation of The Spirit. Sin City earned a Palme d'Or nomination.

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Notable quotes

“He's clearly a man with a mission, but it's not one of vengeance. Bruce is not after personal revenge... He's much bigger than that; he's much more noble than that. He wants the world to be a better place, where a young Bruce Wayne would not be a victim... In a way, he's out to make himself unnecessary. Batman is a hero who wishes he didn't have to exist.”
— About Batman's motives, as quoted by David Mazzuccheli in his Afterword to Batman: Year One.
“My Sin City heroes are knights in dirty, blood-caked armor. They bring justice to a world that gives them no medals, no praise, no reward. That world, that city, often kills them for their brave service.”
— "Frank Miller: I Stole From The Best!" COMICDOM interview (22 January 2006), edited by Dimitris Sakaridis
“It is, not to put too fine a point on it, a piece of propaganda ... Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for.”
— On Holy Terror, a story where Batman takes on Al-Qaeda, as quoted in "Comic book hero takes on al-Qaeda" BBC News (15 February 2006)
“I think it's quite enough to simply be sarcastic about something. I like to do that quite a lot, and it's one of my favorite things to look at. That's why I think there's a thin line between melodrama and satire, and I like to dance across that line sometimes. I like the story to take a very funny turn or have a character who is much more of a cartoon.”
— p. 95
“If ever there was a theme song for the business end of the industry, it's: "We can't do that; we didn't do that yesterday."”
— On the comics industry. p. 111
“It's not movies and it's not "fine art." The beauty of a comic is that it's clear, direct communication. My work is getting simpler and more cartoony because I'm much more interested in communication now than in any illustrative value.”
— p 276