Bob Kane Quotes
"What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself."
- Bob Kane
(Related: Talking)
"This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions."
- Bob Kane
(Related: Time, Thought, Autobiography, Opinions, Sound)
"The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator."
- Bob Kane
(Related: Leader, Artist, Being, Credit, Trouble)
"The New Look of Batman is more illustrative and realistic."
- Bob Kane
"It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory."
- Bob Kane
(Related: Time, Memory, Now, Years)
"When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right."
- Bob Kane
(Related: Eyes, First, Right)
"I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City."
- Bob Kane
(Related: Art, Oil, Planning, Will)
"Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination."
- Bob Kane
(Related: Imagination, Ideas)
"Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime."
- Bob Kane
"Much is written about the Batman because he is publicly exposed in print. Very little is known personally about his creator, because I haven't given out that many interviews."
- Bob Kane
"I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general."
- Bob Kane
(Related: Fact, Public, Writer)
"It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth."
- Bob Kane
(Related: Truth, Myth)
"I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond."
- Bob Kane
(Related: Years)
"I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time."
- Bob Kane
(Related: Time)
"I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman."
- Bob Kane
(Related: Truth, Myths)
"I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you've heard my side."
- Bob Kane
(Related: Now)
"If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence."
- Bob Kane
(Related: Absence)
"If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing."
- Bob Kane
(Related: Truth, Facts, Want)
"In the Golden Age of Batman, I penciled, inked, and lettered my strip by myself."
- Bob Kane
(Related: Age)
"How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?"
- Bob Kane