282 quotes found
"Drehbuch: Lorenzo Semple Jr."
"Genre: Komödie"
"Erschienen: 1966"
"Hauptdarsteller:"
""Lass uns gehen. ABER: ganz"
"Manchmal kann man eine tödliche Bombe einfach nicht loswerden!"
"Heilige Polarisrakete"
"Es geht doch nichts über chemische Erfindungen, die uns das Leben verlängern!"
"Miss Kitka (Undercover-CatWoman): ”Entschuldigen Sie ich will nur noch schnell in etwas Bequemes schlüpfen, bis der Kakao warm wird.“ Bruce: ”Ja, der Kakao.“"
"Regie: Christopher Nolan"
"Drehbuch: Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer, Jonathan Nolan"
"Genre: Actionfilm"
"Erschienen: 2008"
"Ich habe nun gesehen, was ich werden muss, um jemanden wie ihn aufzuhalten."
"Ich glaube, alles, was einen nicht tötet, macht einen komischer."
"Ich bin wie ein Hund, der Autos hinterherjagt. Ich wüsste gar nicht, was ich machen sollte, wenn ich eins erwische!"
"Die Welt ist grausam, und in so einer Welt ist die einzige moralische Größe der Zufall. Unparteiisch. Unvoreingenommen. Fair."
"Am dunkelsten ist die Nacht vor der Dämmerung. Ich verspreche ihnen, die Dämmerung bricht an."
"Regie: Tim Burton"
"Drehbuch: Sam Hamm, Warren Skaaren"
"Genre: Action"
"Erschienen: 1989"
"Ich wünsche allen Einwohnern Gotham Citys, dass sie von kriminellen Elementen verschont werden. Doch sollten sich die Kräfte des Bösen irgendwann wieder erheben, und ihren Schatten auf das Herz der Stadt werfen, so ruft mich."
"Batman, Batman. Kann mir jemand verraten in was für einer Welt wir heutzutage leben, wo ein Mann, der herumläuft wie ne Fledermaus, die ganze Presse auf sich lenkt? Diese Stadt braucht einen Denkzettel!"
"Es ist, als ob wir füreinander geschaffen wären. Das Schöne und das Biest. Sollte dich allerdings ein anderer Biest nennen, so würde ich Gulasch aus ihm machen."
"Arzt: "Mal sehen wie es uns gelungen ist. Oh mein Gott!" Joker: "Spiegel. Spiegel!" Arzt: "Ich bitte Sie zu bedenken, dass die Nerven vollkommen durchtrennt waren, Mr. Napier. Sehen Sie sich doch nur mal an womit ich gezwungen bin zu arbeiten.""
"Vicki Vale: "Bruce?" Joker: "Bruce, Wayne." Batman: "Die meiste Zeit. Ich weiß wer Sie sind. Ich möchte Ihnen eine Geschichte erzählen über jemanden, der Jack heißt, ein fieser Kerl, von Grund aus schlecht." Joker: "Ich habe ihn jetzt schon gern!" Batman: "Er hatte bloß ein Problem, er ist irre geworden, naja, nicht ganz dicht, er drehte plötzlich durch."
"Batman hält die Welt in Atem, 1966"
"The Batman vs. Dracula, 2006"
"LEGO Batman: Der Film – Vereinigung der DC-Superhelden, 2013"
"The LEGO Movie, 2014"
"Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, 2016"
"Batman (Film), 1989"
"Batmans Rückkehr, 1992"
"Batman Forever, 1995"
"Batman & Robin, 1997"
"Batman Begins, 2005"
"The Dark Knight, 2008"
"The Dark Knight Rises, 2012"
"Batman (Serie), 1966–1968"
"Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder, 1968–1969"
"Ein Fall für Batman, 1977–1978"
"Batman (Zeichentrickserie), 1992–1995"
"Batman & Robin (Zeichentrickserie), 1997–1999"
"Batman of the Future, 1999–2001"
"The Batman, 2004–2008"
"Batman: The Brave and the Bold, 2008–2011"
"Beware the Batman, 2013–2014"
"Gotham, 2014–2019"
"Drehbuch: Daniel Waters"
"Erschienen: 1992"
"Wieso tust du das? Übergeben wir ihn der Polizei, dann können wir heimgehen, wir zwei. Selina, siehst du denn nicht, dass wir dieselben Kreaturen sind? Wir sind gleich, gespalten bis ins Innere. Selina, bitte."
"Ich habe vielleicht das Baby des Bürgermeisters gerettet, aber ich weigere mich einen Bürgermeister zu unterstützen, der hilflos wie ein Baby daneben stand, während Gotham von einer Krankheit heimgesucht worden ist, die nette freundliche Pfadfinder in wahnsinnige Plaut verwandelt hat und zufriedene Hausfrauen in bösartige Katzen. Danke. Danke! Ich danke Ihnen!"
"Hört zu, ich heiße nicht Oswald, ich heiße Pinguin. Ich bin kein menschliches Wesen, nein, ich bin ein Tier, kaltblütig."
"Selina Kyle: "Hören Sie, es bleibt unter uns, ich schwöre es. Wie können Sie so gemein zu jemandem sein, der so unwichtig ist?" Max Shreck: "Dieses Kraftwerk ist mein Nachlass, mein Vermächtnis, für Chip. Dieses Projekt, Selina, wird keiner verhindern." Selina Kyle: "Okey, nur weiter. Schüchtern Sie mich ein. Machen Sie mir Angst wenn es Sie befriedigt, ich meine, Sie können mich ja nicht einfach umbringen." Max Shreck: "Ehrlich gesagt kann ich das durchaus tun.""
"Regie: Joel Schumacher"
"Drehbuch: Akiva Goldsman"
"Erschienen: 1995"
"Alfred ist ein hervorragender Mechaniker, aber an einigen ist zu viel zu tun. Wenn ich jemanden hätte, der sie repariert, würde ich ihm dafür eine überlassen."
"In der Nacht der Totenwache für meine Eltern konnten mich die Worte des Priesters nicht trösten. Wie sollten sie auch, denn auf dem Schreibtisch meines Vaters lag das rote Buch, sein Tagebuch. Seit ich denken konnte hatte er jeden Tag darin verewigt, doch von nun an würden die Seiten leer bleiben. In diesem Augenblick wusste ich, dass mein Leben nie wieder so sein würde wie es war."
"Der eine wird als Held geboren, sein Bruder als Feigling. Babys verhungern, Politiker werden immer fetter. Und Junkies bevölkern unsere Straßen. Wieso? Wieso, wieso, wiese, wieso, wieso? Schicksal, blindes, dummes, armes, ach so ahnungsloses Schicksal!"
"Ich glaube du hast den falschen im Visier. Das wäre viel zu einfach für so eine brillante Persönlichkeit wie du es bist. Aber Batman ist eine wirkliche Herausforderung. Auf zum Jagen!"
"Dr. Chase Meridian: "Sie sehen so traurig aus. Brauchen Sie eine?" Bruce Wayne: "Ich? Nein, wieso sollte ich." Dr. Chase Meridian: "Sie sind nicht ganz der, der Sie zu sein scheinen, Bruce Wayne. Was ist der wirkliche Anlass für Ihren Besuch?""
"Idee: Bruno Heller"
"Genre: Krimi, Action"
"erstmals ausgestrahlt: 2014"
"Ich kam her, um ein Cop zu sein. Diese Stadt braucht etwas anderes."
"Wenn wir nicht für diese Stadt kämpfen, wer dann?"
"Es ist eine traurige Wahrheit, aber sowas wie Loyalität gibt es unter Ganoven nunmal nicht!"
"Wenn man weiß, was ein Mann liebt, weiß man, wie man ihn töten kann."
"Ich will nicht, dass der Traum meiner Eltern mit ihnen stirbt."
"Ewigkeit ist eine schrecklich lange Zeit, besonders wenn sie dem Ende zu geht."
"Batman in comics"
"Live action television, featuring and"
"Animated television by Filmation"
"Animated television revival"
"The Arkhamverse games"
"Other video games"
"DC Extended Universe"
"The Batman Epic Crime Saga"
"For this film, I had something to say about Bruce Wayne as a character, what his motivations are. That there’s something dark and wrong about what drives him. Batman is a super hero and he does good. But I think the Bruce Wayne part of the character’s motivation is slightly twisted. Bruce’s motivations don’t come from a good place. He’s angry and, in that revenge is really his goal, he’s a dishonest character. That’s why he has to wear a mask. He’s doing good, but he’s not doing all the right things for all the right reasons."
"Batman is his hidden, demonic rage-filled side. The creature Batman creates is an absolutely sincere creature and one that he has to control but does so in a very haphazard way. He's capable of enacting violence – and to kill – so he's constantly having to rein himself in."
"With all of this stunning technology, questions remain. Do Batman's gadgets and vehicles have any connection to the real world? Do grapnel guns, body armor, and rocket-booster cars really exist? You bet-and the real-world connections stretch further than you've ever imagined. From wingsuits to stealth fighters jets to police duty belts, real-life connections abound. Batman may fight evil in a fictional world, but much of his gear is rooted in reality."
"He remembered a story from his time as Batman. One day he was filming and about to take off the Batsuit when Warren Buffett and his grandkids came by. They wanted to see Batman, so Kilmer stuck around in the suit, but they didn’t want to talk to him. They wanted to try on the mask and ride in the Batmobile. He understood then that Batman isn’t meant to be a real guy. Batman is meant to be so anonymous that the person who is looking at him can see himself in him. “That’s why it’s so easy to have five or six Batmans,” he says now. “It’s not about Batman. There is no Batman.” And so what kind of thing is that to play, a person whose job is to be as nonspecific as possible. He looked good in the Batsuit, but wearing it was torture. When he took it off, he was finally free."
"Is Batman gay? Well, no: Batman, after 73 years of publication, with appearances on TV, in video games, movies and comics, can never be tied down to any one identity. Batman has been a ridiculous boy-scout, a fearsome vigilante, a protective father, a loner, a clown. Batman is a myth and a mosaic, an icon who catches the light at different angles at different times, and takes multiple forms. But gayness – from high camp to intense homoeroticism – is an important aspect of that icon. This reading is nothing new. Media scholar Andy Medhurst outlined it in an important 1991 article, Batman, Deviance and Camp. In the 60s, George Melly remarked of the Adam West TV show: "We all knew Robin and Batman were pouves." And in the 50s, young boys supposedly confessed to psychiatrist Fredric Wertham that they fantasied about sharing a bedroom with Batman. Whenever that interpretation raises its head, it meets resistance. In the 50s, the accusations that Bruce and Dick "Robin" Grayson represented "a wish-dream of two homosexuals living together" went to a Senate subcommittee hearing, and the comic-book editors responded by bringing in Batgirl and Batwoman, double-dates for the dynamic duo. In the late 60s, DC Comics commissioned a new team to rebrand Batman with hard-boiled, street-level stories intended to wipe out the memory of Adam West's TV show."
"I don't think she wanted to be saved, sir. Vengeance blackens the soul, Bruce. I always feared you would become that which you fought against. You walk the edge of that abyss every night, but you haven't fallen in and I thank heaven for that. But Andrea fell into that pit years ago, and no one, not even you, could've pulled her back."
"I think the reason he’s so iconic, is because of all the superheroes he’s the only one who has no superpowers at all. He’s just an ordinary person, but what he has is a super amount of passion. And a super sense of right and wrong, morality, and so he’s just an average guy – with a billion dollars – how transforms himself into this champion of pure good, there’s nothing in it for him, he gets nothing out of this except the knowledge that he’s healing the world. And its all because of what happened to him as a child, avenging what happened to, the murder of his parents, and his being left as an orphan. And he spends his life, instead of allowing life. You know life, I often say life throws nothing but curve balls, no matter what you do to prepare for life, its going to throw a curve ball, you’re going to constantly be switching from this to that and if you let it, it can make you bitter, it can make you angry, it can make you hostile. Bruce Wayne doesn’t allow that to happen. Life throws him this huge curve ball as a child, and he takes it and he turns it into something good, and that’s why audiences love him so much. People relate to him because every-one has had dark nights of the soul, we all do, people with the most charmed lives have had dark periods. So everyone relates to the darkness that Bruce Wayne goes through, and what they admire about him is his ability to overcome it, and to turn it into something good. And I think that makes him the most incredible character for me, to play, and for audiences to enjoy."
"O'Neil's interpretation of Batman as a vengeful obsessive-compulsive, which he modestly describes as a return to the roots, was actually an act of creative imagination that has influenced every subsequent version of the Dark Knight."
": "Batman's rich history allows him to be interpreted in a multitude of ways. To be sure, this is a lighter incarnation, but is certainly no less valid and true to the character's roots then the tortured avenger, crying out for mommy and daddy." And besides, those Easter bunnies looked really scary, right?"
"I've always preferred Batman to Superman because Batman's stunts are at least theoretically possible. When he swings from the Playboy Building to the John Hancock Center, he uses a rope. Meanwhile, Superman is holding up toppling skyscrapers and stopping bullets with his teeth."
"Bob Kane...had an idea for a character called 'Batman', and he'd like me to see the drawings. I went over to Kane's, and he had drawn a character who looked very much like Superman with kind of ... reddish tights, I believe, with boots ... no gloves, no gauntlets ... with a small domino mask, swinging on a rope. He had two stiff wings that were sticking out, looking like bat wings. And under it was a big sign ... BATMAN."
"Bruce Wayne's first name came from Robert Bruce, the Scottish patriot. Wayne, being a playboy, was a man of gentry. I searched for a name that would suggest colonialism. I tried Adams, Hancock ... then I thought of Mad Anthony Wayne."
"I knew many homosexuals but I certainly didn’t think of Batman in those terms. I thought of it in terms of … Frank Merriwell and Dick Merriwell, his half-brother, who was the kid he was taking care of. … In America we always talk about the Western hero and the pioneer kind of man—the Davy Crockett types—as being loners. They’re never really. They always have a sidekick. … Certainly there’s no homosexual relationship. It’s just part of the American syndrome. … It was just that the author realized that you’ve gotta have somebody to talk to. Sherlock Holmes had Watson—were they homosexuals? Baloney. You just can’t have your hero walking around thinking aloud all the time. He’d be ready for the men in white coats after a time. So we created a junior Watson and that’s all [Robin] was."
"Robin was an outgrowth of a conversation I had with Bob. As I said, Batman was a combination of Douglas Fairbanks and Sherlock Holmes. Holmes had his Watson. The thing that bothered me was that Batman didn't have anyone to talk to, and it got a little tiresome always having him thinking. I found that as I went along Batman needed a Watson to talk to. That's how Robin came to be. Bob called me over and said he was going to put a boy in the strip to identify with Batman. I thought it was a great idea."
"More important than this, however, is the idea that Batman is not just a guy in a suit, but a symbol and there are people in the film most notably The Joker who want to destroy that symbol. While Batman's identity remains secret and his motives unknown to Gothamites, he represents hope in a city that has little to spare and embodies a pursuit of justice and further, a code of behavior that quite literally threatens these criminals' way of life. By throwing Gotham into chaos and testing the limits to which Batman holds himself, The Joker is not merely plying death and destruction but willfully destroying the philosophical foundations of organized society. The closest such examination another comic book-oriented film has ever attempted was the emotional throughline of the Spider-Man films. Peter Parker's struggle was almost exclusively personal, whereas Wayne not only has to find a way to maintain his moral compass, but consider what the repercussions of his heroism are to both the public and the criminals themselves."
"I think Batman is a pretty universal character. I remember him as a child. But I think Christian [Bale] did the best I’ve seen so far, because of that tortured background of loss. The original Batman, they’re not much remembered as a Batman character – they were not used for training [chuckles]. You had to really – there was a darkness and a damagedness about his character that I think they got right with Christian Bale. Especially in the last two. But that doesn’t have anything to do with Ben Affleck. I think he’s willing to take risks. He seems to be."
"I made Batman a superhero-vigilante when I first created him. Bill turned him into a scientific detective."
"I wanted to see and to show that transition when he goes from Bruce Wayne to Batman, the time when he's about to don the suit and go out and wreak some havoc. That's not a casual thing, obviously, it's not putting on a jacket to go out for the evening. So what is that transition like? So there was a thing we did early on that showed him going into a sort of trance and it justified this shift in him."
"This chapter offers a gay reading of Batman. It presents three reasons why Batman is especially interesting to gay audiences. Firstly, he was one of the first fictional characters to be attacked on the grounds of presumed homosexuality, by Fredric Wertham in his book Seduction of the Innocent. Secondly, the TV series from the 1960s was and remains a touchstone of camp. Thirdly, as a recurring hero figure for the last fifty years, Batman merits analysis as a notably successful construction of masculinity."
"Q: One of the things that led you to create Dark Knight Returns was a series of muggings. What happened?"
"I am sure there is probably a very good reason for the hundreds of thousands of adults who are flocking to see the latest adventures of Batman, but I for one am a little in the dark for what that reason is."
"He’s a rich man who beats up poor people. It’s quite a bizarre mission to go out at night dressed as a bat and punch the hell out of junkies. And then he goes home and lives in this mansion. There’s an aspirational quality to him—he’s an outlaw and he can buy anything. He has a new Batmobile every movie. He’s very plutonian in the sense that he’s wealthy and also in the sense that he’s sexually deviant. Gayness is built into Batman. I’m not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There’s just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he’s intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay. I think that’s why people like it. All these women fancy him and they all wear fetish clothes and jump around rooftops to get to him. He doesn’t care—he’s more interested in hanging out with the old guy and the kid."
"Creatively, it was ninety-eight percent Bill and one percent Bob, and the rest is in the ether. We don’t know. It was so much more Bill from the get-go, creatively. Bob Kane had financial advice that served him well. But as far as the major elements of Batman, the example I like to give – it’s probably even in the film, because I say it so much – if you just stop a random grandmother on the street and say, ‘Name something you know about Batman,’ first of all, she’ll know something. Everybody knows something. And whatever that person says will be a Bill Finger contribution. He was that pervasive in the creation of Batman."
"I don't like his other work; I think its shallow and badly written. I mean, I've got kids who like superheroes, and they think the Batman films are boring and pretentious. They like things like The Avengers and Iron Man because they're fun."
"It's a wrong move to take a superhero and give it psychological realism. There is no psychological realism. He's a bodybuilder who jumps off buildings. I'm sorry I feel really strongly about this."
"As Kane tells it, the pre-teen Bruce is out at night (circa 1924) with his parents when an armed mugger kills both of them. The orphaned lad, his hands clasped in prayer, his bedroom illuminated by a single candle, swears 'to avenge their deaths by spending the rest of my life warring on all criminals'. He 'becomes a master scientist' and 'trains his body to physical perfection' and, because 'criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot', chooses to become 'a creature of the night, black, terrible... a bat... the Batman'. From these two garishly printed pages, Nolan and Goyer have fashioned a whole movie."
"All superheroes are black sheep. But the Dark Knight has always been murkier than most. His superpowers are not an accident of birth, or of stumbling into the wrong lab at the wrong time. They're not powers at all, simply a simulation made possible by good fortune and the leisure that accompanies it. Bruce Wayne can splurge on the kit and cars to set himself up as a crime-fighting Christ substitute, plus power and glitter enough to hide his hobby. He's always been a curious idol: within aspiration because he's flesh and blood; beyond it because he's the lucky recipient of inherited wealth. So it should be no surprise that The Dark Knight Rises so firmly upholds the financial status quo. Christopher Nolan's film indulges in much guttural talk of the gap between the 99% and the 1%, but it is the former who are demonised, whose revolting actions require curbing and mutinous squeals muting. Your average Joe, it turns out, requires a benevolent, bad-ass billionaire to set him straight, to knock him sideways, if necessary."
"Superman: Next time they shine your light in the sky, don't go to it. The Bat is dead. Bury it. Consider this mercy."
"So we need a Batman and something that has been bouncing around in the back of my head, for decades probably, is a quote from Bob Kane. I remember reading where he said Batman is half Dracula and half Zorro, and that’s part of the appeal of Batman. That he’s dark and spooky-looking, and he’s got that badass costume and the bat imagery. So I always wanted to go all the way with it and actually make him a vampire. One episode of Batman: The Animated Series, back in the day twenty years ago, we actually wanted to turn Batman temporarily into a vampire but Fox Kids wasn't having any of that."
"The apartment was right off Gotham Drive, just inside the diamond-spine of the great city. The Batman watched from one rooftop away. Watched the light go off as the apartment dropped into darkness. Something he didn't understand pulled him magnetically to that spot. He knew who lived there—the incest offender who told Debra Kane how much he loved his little girl. But what was he doing... "No!" he said to himself. "I took an oath. The authorities already know about him. I can't just ...""
"Playing Batman is an actor's challenge. First it's different; then, you have to reach a multi-level audience. The kids take it straight, but for adults, we have to project it further ... When Batman was a comic it wasn't camp, but the show is. When I got the part, I tried to remember Batman as I knew him when I was a kid - with emotional recall."
"We're trying to create a folk hero ... when you play a legend, you have to play it with a straight direct line, direct speech and movement...Now Bruce, on the other hand, has to come across as the kindest, noblest, most charitable guy - again, "straight-line" - not Cary Grant charming - know what I mean?""
"Human psychology has two basic reactions to images of darkness and horror: the first is to be horrified, as if we saw a monster; the second is to be curious what it would be like to horrify, as if we were the monster. For those of us who are not particular fans of stories told from the point of view of vampires, that curiosity can be made palatable if the horrific monster preys only on the guilty. Bats are creepy—but there are creeps in the world who deserve to be scared. For them, there is the Batman."
"Looking at Superman psychologically means looking at modern mythology. He's the modern demigod myth. While there's something mythic about Batman too, to be sure, he's more akin to the mortal legends like Robin Hood and pulp heroes like Zorro and the Shadow, extraordinary men but men nonetheless."
"Where Superman drew his might from the Earth's sun, Batman found his in a city's darkness. Jerry and Joe played with the bright and impossible. Bob Kane and Bill Finger, in creating Batman, expanded the meme by adding the coin's other side, the dark and improbably possible."
"The Shadow archetype represents your own dark side, not necessarily your evil side but the part of you that is hidden, out of the light, the sum of those characteristics you conceal from both the world and yourself. Bruce Wayne confronts his own darkest nature early in life, chooses to work with it, and uses it to instill fear in others. His bright and dark sides work together to fight evil. From a Jungian perspective, therefore, Batman appeals to our own need to face and manage our own Shadow selves. We want Batman in our shadows."
"Because Batman is fully human and because a horrible trauma leads him to wear a mask and wage his war on crime, we can contemplate real psychological issues that drive people to do extreme things. Psychologists can examine how well he does or does not fit the symptoms of a variety of disorders. Nobody thinks it's weird for Superman to apply his natural gifts to help the members of this human race in a manner that keeps him above it all. When a guy runs around dressed like a bat, we have to wonder: Why the mask, the bat, and the underage partner? Why does he really wear a costume to fight crime? Why are his most intimate relationships with "bad girls" he ought to lock up? And why won't he kill that homicidal clown?"
""Bill and I discussed it," Kane recalled (Daniels, 1999, p. 31), "and we figured there's nothing more traumatic than having your parents murdered before your eyes." Losing one's parent or parents when old enough to know about it ranks as the single most stressful common life event children can experience (e.g., Monaghan, Robinson, & Dodge, 1979). Uncommon traumas like torture or terrorist attacks are not universal experiences, not things most of us can anticipate, but sooner or later we all learn that our parents can and will die."
"Why don’t children fear this hero who dresses like a monster? Because he’s their monster. He’s ours. Even when children learn that magic will not save them nor will a hero in blue fly out of the sky, so they develop more realistic hopes, they can still hope that when they can't find the strength to stand up to life's bullies, someone who is strong and capable might do the right thing and help. In Batman, they see the wounded boy who makes himself big and strong enough to turn fear against the fearsome. With both brain and brawn, he’s the part of us that wants to scare life’s bullies away."
"Lord Batman: Think about it - a world where there's no crimes. No victims. No pain."
"Bruce Wayne: Commissioner. What can I do for you?"
"Batman: Get a clue, clowny! He's got no sense of humor! He wouldn't know a good joke if it bit him in the cape."
"Superman: Do I look like Batman to you?"
"Wonder Woman: Circumstances asides, it was kind of... enjoyable being a kid again."
"Bruce: Look, sometimes I don't know what to think about this. It's just something I have to do."
"Carmine Falcone: You're taller than you look in the tabloids, Mr. Wayne. No gun? I'm insulted. You could've just sent a thank-you note."
"Commissioner Gordon: I don't know who he is beneath that mask of his, but I know when we need him, and we need him now!"
"Miss Kitka: If you please, to take off the mask to give the better picture?"
"Amanda Waller: Stop me if you've heard it before - you're eight years old. Your parents have just taken you to a rousing adventure film - a grand time is had by all. But unknown to you, a mysterious figure hides in the shadows. My plan was simple - the killer would leap out at you and kill your family. The trauma would put you on the path to becoming Batman. One problem - my assassin wouldn't pull the trigger. I argued with her, but deep down, I knew she was right. People say Batman's obsessive, that he'd do anything to achieve his goals - but he'd never resort to murder. So if I was to honor all he stood for, neither could I."
"Abed Nadir: I know I'm not Batman. You could try not being a jerk."
"Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture: We were robbed. No two ways about it."
"Hank Venture: Wait! Dude! What about Batman? You call yourself a Batman fan? He would never kill anybody. Seriously, ask yourself- what would Batman do?"
"---Contract...contract...ohhh"
"Sure, I did it. But you won't send me to the chair for it!!! I'll--"
"So far so good, eh Gloves? C'mon, this way."
"Bah! Missed at that distance. He is like a jack-in-the-box, that Batman! But I'll get him from the window."
"You shall be thrown into the arena below to die at thier rending fangs. As you are screaming in death, remember that Julie herself will be a werewolf in time! To run with the pack on moonlight nights!"
"Leave her alone you. Oh."
"Thomas! You've killed him! Help! Police. Help!"
"Ah-ugh! I'm choking!"
"Now you die Batman!"
"Jack, listen. Maybe we can cut a deal."
"Sometimes, I just kill myself!"
"Ohhh... shit! I picked the cute one! The heat's getting to me. I'll murder you momentarily. Acck.... but first, I need a cool drink... of ice water."
"Bruce. It's okay. Don’t be afraid."
"What the hell is this?"
"Have you finally learned to do what is necessary?"
"Nah, I'm done here."
"On the ground! Stay on the ground! Nobody make a move! Nobody! Stay down!"
"What? No, NO!"
"Bus driver? What bus driver?"
"What happened to the rest of the guys?"
"So, dead? That's five-hundred."
"Yeah, but you're not giving me an awful lot of information."
"How'd they get my DNA?"
"Is that a phone?"
"It's okay, Harvey. It's all right. Listen... some--"
"(The Joker: Tell your men they work for me now. This is my city.) They won't work for a freak!"
"(Two-Face: You're a lucky man. But he's not.) Who? (Two-Face: Your driver.)"
"Tell your son it'll be all right, Gordon. Lie... like I lied."
"Well congratulations, you got yourself caught. Now what's the next step of your master plan?"
"Have we started a fire?"
"You're pure evil."
"A training exercise, that’s all. If you’ll excuse me, I’ve got tickets to watch our boys thrash Rapid City."
"I'll die before I talk."
"Has anyone ever made it?"
"Keep moving forward! Flank them at the stairs!"
"We both know that I have to kill you now. You'll just have to imagine the fire."
"Fox showed me how to override the reactor...including the emergency flood. There's no way this bomb will be stopped. Prepare yourselves. My father's work is done."
"(Joker: How about another joke, Murray?) No, I think we'd had enough of your jokes. (Joker: What do you get...) I don't think so. (Joker: ...when you cross...) I think we're done here now, thank you. (Joker: ...a mentally-ill loner with a society that abandoned him AND TREATS HIM LIKE TRASH?!?!) Call the police, Gene. (Joker: I'LL TELL YOU WHAT YOU GET!!) Call the police. (Joker: YOU GET WHAT YOU FUCKING DESERVE!!!)"
"Alright, y-you know what? I can't-- I can't watch this any more, just call me in the morning, okay?"
"They're so much bigger than you could ever imagine! It's the whole system! I'm so sorry!"
"Oh, so you're a big man now, Oz, huh? (Cobblepot: Maybe I am.) Really, Oz? Because to me, you were always just a gimp in an empty suit."
"He's got us running around, ripping out a lot of geek junk, but no cash! He won't tell us what his plan is, even if he has one! I want out! (Joker: If you insist.) Hey, man, take it easy! I-I was, I was just kidding!"
"That's not funny. That's not... (gasp)... (uncut)"
"Make him one of us. (edited)"
"Come on, McGinnis! Laugh it up now, you miserable little punk! Laugh! (sing-song tone) I can't hear yooouuu!"
"You're ....Bruce....Wayne..."
"Who: Dracula"
"(David Endocrine: So you think the Batman's the real sicko here.) Without a doubt. He's an obsessive-compulsive, narcissistic hero-complexed sociopath. I would love a shot at him as a patient."
"(Joker: Do guests get to keep these?) Heh. Sure, you do whatever you want with it. We got a closet full of them."
"You're in trouble now... Go ahead. Say this has never happened to you before. (Batman: Shut up!) Make me! Come on! Finish me! Ah, doesn't matter. I win. I made you lose control... Heh-heh-ha, and they'll kill you for it. Eh-heh-heh! See you... in hell! Ah-ha-ha-ha!"
"Well, do it!"
"You're lying. You would not take all of this trouble just to kill us."
"Err...Guys..."
"Outta my way, Loser!"
"Why won't you listen?! Why won't you understand?! I love them! I love them! I..."
"Talon, my darling, Forget them. The two of us can..."
"Don't doubt your instincts."
"I'm really... very disappointed with you, my sweet. The moment was perfect... and you... didn't have the nerve. Paralysis... really... Just an ounce or two more of pressure... and... do I hear sirens? Yes, coming close... you won't get far... But then... it doesn't matter if you do, they'll kill you for this. And they'll never know that you didn't have the nerve. I'll see you in hell..."
"Of course. How utterly proper."
"...What's wrong?"
"...Such a... good boy... ...must have... really... loved his... mother... ...His... his... ugh..."
"(Ernest: Try my sock drawer. I bought some of those comedian stamps.) Perfect for you, Ernie."
"To the Roman!"
"This is about Falcone. You gotta get the Roman before he gets you."
"Dent? Comin' after me? Is that why you're moving me? Let him come, that rat bast-"
"I'll burn it all down before I let a freak have it!"
"Please don't kill me, Mr. Dent..."
"I am not my father. I just want to live."
"You still protect him?! He betrayed you and this city. Everything you say you believe in."
"Okay... see... they're not just brothers... twins..."
"Rules are rules. The house always wins. The Black Glove always wins."
"There will always be a Joker. Because there is no cure for him. No cure at all... just a Batman."
"My city! My people! WHAT HAVE I DONE?!"
"You're pretty strong... for some clown who thinks he's Batman."
"Believe me, you're the only one who cares."
"PAAAXTOOON!!!"
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?!"
"This is your dream. It's so sweet, too! And so pathetic. You really think people would make a float of your dumb face and march it down the street chanting your goddamn name? "Oh, oh, Oswald Cobb! Remember him? What a guy!" What a little bitch."
"Hey, no, I--!"
"Oz! You fuckin' traitor!"
"Oz. I can say it. I'll say his name. "Viti"."
"I have been nothing but loyal to you!"
"End it. Please, end it. End it. End it. End it! End it! End it!"
"Don't be silly, I'm your friend! We're gonna have so much fun together, too. We can celebrate holidays and birthdays. Mine's in February, which makes me an Aquarius-- Wait, wait! Plea-!"
"Gia, go get ready for bed, okay?"
"This is from Oz, motherfucker!"
"Oh, no! Oh, shit!"
"Alright, okay, Sofia? Let's not be rash here, alright? These gentlemen know we got a score we need to settle."
"Oh, shit! Out back!"
"You underground? Shit, you digging holes or something?"
"Please, let us out of here!"
"Help! HELP!"
"Get back! Everybody, get back!"
"Motherfucker!"
"Sofia wants to see ya."
"Will you, uh, end things here or drop him off over the Atlantic? See if a penguin can really fly..."
"Please! Oz!"
"Oh my God!"
"Passcode... Wayne..."
"No, no, no!"
"I'm sorry, beloved. I didn't know."
"That actually is... pretty funny..."
"You can't do this! I'm the Police Commissioner, dammit!"
"Help me. [giggles] Oh, God."
"Just who... the hell... are you?"
"Now that's... unexpected! You're gonna be spectacular."
"Nature always wins."
"No, Bruce! Don't leave me! Please... I need you! (in-game)"
"You're a great crowd. I'll be here all week; try the veal. (end credits)"
"You don't need to do this. I'll give you money. Drugs! Guns! Weapons! Whatever you want. Please. I'll take a plane. Leave Gotham. Never show my face again. Anywhere you want. I'll go anywhere!"
"Stubborn, stupid fool. It's why she loved you."
"Tell Falcone...he's making a mistake..."
"Bruce...Bruce..."
"You can't trust anyone in Gotham, least of all those you call "friend." Your parents learned that the har-"
"Good evening, everyone, and welcome to our live debate for the next Mayor of Gotham City. This is an important debate for these two candidates, incumbent Mayor Hamilton Hill and the challenger, Gotham District Attorney Harvey Dent. And it's also important for you, the citizens of Gotham, who will soon head to the polls to decide the future of your home-a city that's faced its share of hardships in recent years. Rising crime rates, income inequality and yes, a masked vigilante loose on our streets. The candidates will tackle it all."
"I-I took out Thomas Wayne! That-that was all him-he didn't know when to stop-I had him killed because of it!"
"You...have to...stop them...save our city... (if shot by the Children of Arkham)"
"You have to...stop Dent... (if shot by Mayor Dent's militia)"
"Lady Arkham hasn't forgotten you! Everything you love...will burn!"
"I see your true face. I'll never trust you. (if she learns Batman's true identity)"
"This is how it was meant to be. (if she does not learn Batman's true identity)"
"We really made a difference, didn't we... Batman?"
"He... I... They... they... broke the Pact."
"Afraid? Batman's not afraid of anything. It's me. I'm afraid. I'm afraid that the Joker may be right about me. Sometimes I... question the rationality of my actions. And I'm afraid that when I walk through those asylum gates... when I walk into Arkham and the doors close behind me... it'll be just like coming home."
"Sometimes it's only madness that makes us what we are."
"My movements through the house have become as formalized as ballet and I feel that I have become an essential part in some incomprehensible biological process. The house is an organism, hungry for madness. It is the maze that dreams."
"I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is rationality."
"Following my father's death, I think it’s true that the house became my whole world. During the long period of mother's illness, the house often seemed so vast, so confidently REAL, that by comparison, I felt little more than a ghost haunting its corridors. Scarcely aware that anything could exist beyond those melancholy walls."
"I see my wife first. My dear Constance. Her body in pieces. Harriet lies nearby, indescribably violated. Almost idly, I wonder where her head is. And then I look at the doll's house. And the doll's house looks at me."
"Finished. It's finished. I'm Arkham. I'm home. Where I belong."
"Twinkle twinkle little bat! How I wonder what you're at!"
"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."
"Who cares for you? You're nothing but a pack of cards."
"Len Wein ... had written a few short and evocative paragraphs on the history of Arkham Asylum and it was here I learned of poor Amadeus Arkham, the hospital's founder, whose wife and daughter had been murdered by Martin "Mad Dog" Hawkins. In Wein's précis, Arkham's madness was described as a result of the Stock Market crash of 1929. It occurred to me that having one's wife and daughter slaughtered by a man named "Mad Dog" might have been sufficient cause for a nervous breakdown, so I decided to explore and expand on the life of this throwaway character."
"The intention was to create something that was more like a piece of music or an experimental film than a typical adventure comic book. I wanted to approach Batman from the point of view of the dreamlike, emotional and irrational hemisphere, as a response to the very literal, "realistic" "left brain" treatment of superheroes which was in vogue at the time, in the wake of The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen and others."
"The portrayal of Batman presented here is not definitive and is not necessarily how I would write the character otherwise. The repressed, armored, uncertain and sexually frozen man in Arkham Asylum was intended as a critique of the '80s interpretation of Batman as violent, driven, and borderline psychopathic. My own later portrayal of Batman in the JLA comic was one which emphasized the character's sanity and dignity."
"The construction of the story was influenced by the architecture of a house — the past and the tale of Amadeus Arkham forms the basement levels. Secret passages connect ideas and segments of the book. There are upper stories of unfolding symbol and metaphor. We were also referencing sacred geometry, and the plan of the Arkham House was based on the Glastonbury Abbey and Chartres Cathedral. The journey through the book is like moving through the floors of the house itself. The house and the head become one."
"The story's themes were inspired by Lewis Carroll, quantum physics, Jung, and Crowley; its visual style by surrealism, Eastern European creepiness, Cocteau, Artaud, Švankmajer, the Brothers Quay, etc."
"The original first draft of the script included Robin. Robin appeared in a few scenes at the beginning then remained at Police Headquarters for the bulk of the book, where he spent his time studying plans and histories of the house, in order to find a way in to help his mentor. Dave McKean, however, felt that he had already compromised his artistic integrity sufficiently by drawing Batman and refused point blank over for the Boy Wonder — so after one brave but ridiculous attempt to put him in a trench coat, I wisely removed him from the script."
"I imagined it being done by someone like Brian Bolland, and my vision was of it being ultra-real to the point of being painful. [. . .] But then when Dave McKean did it it became something quite different, because he wanted to make it more abstract. And I think that in a lot of ways, the ways we both approached it clashed in the middle. [. . .] I think it would have been easier for people to deal with if it had been a lot more concrete."
"Morrison, Grant Morrison: Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics book, p. 68."
"We piled all this stuff on top of it, and dressed it up in its best clothes, and sent it out. Then I sat down afterwards and realized, "Why? Why bother? It's such an absurd thing to do". It's like suddenly realizing the fact that you're desperately trying to work around the subject matter — trying to make the book despite the subject, rather than because of it. At the end of the day, if you really love to do Batman comics, then that's probably the best thing to do. Not liking them, and then trying to make something out of them is just a waste of time. Also, by the end of it I'd really begun to think that this whole thing about four-color comics with very, very overpainted, lavish illustrations in every panel just didn't work. It hampers the storytelling. It does everything wrong. It's very difficult to have any enthusiasm about it after that."