Geoff Johns quote: "The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses the line and the villain who sometimes doesn't are just much more interesting."

I absolutely love Aquaman, and the character has been a passion since 'Blackest Night.'
GEOFF JOHNS

The truth is, we're all cyborgs with cell phones and online identities.
GEOFF JOHNS

Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg are fantastic producers and showrunners, and the...
GEOFF JOHNS

Batman and the Flash have a whole lot in common behind the mask. They've both experienced loss, ...
GEOFF JOHNS

Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compe...
GEOFF JOHNS

I didn't want to take the DC universe, put it in a box, shake the box and pour it out. I wanted ...
GEOFF JOHNS

Deathstorm sees Power Ring as a fascinating experiment. Deathstorm is a scientist who's been mer...
GEOFF JOHNS

The Green Lanterns are very forward and very courageous, very forceful. The Red Lanterns are out of ...
GEOFF JOHNS

My sister was the inspiration for the character, the good qualities instilled in the character. The ...
GEOFF JOHNS

The idea of introducing the Seven Seas is absolutely to challenge Aquaman on an emotional and person...
GEOFF JOHNS

I've been writing 'Green Lantern' for a long time, and one of the reasons I've enjoy...
GEOFF JOHNS

'Flashpoint' is a showcase to demonstrate why the Flash is a major character, just like how ...
GEOFF JOHNS

Clearly, Simon Baz brings such a different viewpoint to 'Green Lantern.' The very nature of ...
GEOFF JOHNS

I really explored self-awareness and emotions through 'Green Lantern.' It might sound goofy,...
GEOFF JOHNS

I'm really proud of all the stuff we've built with Green Lantern - from Larfleeze to the dif...
GEOFF JOHNS

The thing about Green Lantern rings is they pick whoever has potential to overcome great fear.
GEOFF JOHNS

In the Teen Titans one year later we want to introduce like 20 mysteries and make them feel as fresh...
GEOFF JOHNS

I think he's going to be a fantastic new character.
GEOFF JOHNS

I started at DC with Stars & S.T.R.I.P.E. and I've never stopped having fun, ... I'm working with th...
GEOFF JOHNS

I started at DC with STARS & S.T.R.I.P.E. and I've never stopped having fun, ... I'm working with th...
GEOFF JOHNS

Hopefully this is the payoff of all the work everybodys been doing for where were taking the DC Univ...
GEOFF JOHNS

Were really trying to make Crisis as accessible as possible, which is extremely difficult to do beca...
GEOFF JOHNS

I'm just thrilled people are checking out POWER GIRL. She's one of the greatest heroines in the DCU ...
GEOFF JOHNS

I love every character in the DC universe, except for Rampage. Rampage is a She-Hulk rip-off, and I ...
GEOFF JOHNS

I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You&...
GEOFF JOHNS

Any character can find an audience and work if you have passion for that character. You might have t...
GEOFF JOHNS

The ocean is 90% unexplored. It's a great canvas to paint Aquaman stories across, just like Gree...
GEOFF JOHNS

Every villain in the DC Universe wants something different, and not all of them want to rule the wor...
GEOFF JOHNS

I tend to like writing long stories in comics. I worked on 'Flash,' 'Teen Titans' an...
GEOFF JOHNS

I don't know who made the first Aquaman joke. I'm sure it was comics readers; maybe we all d...
GEOFF JOHNS

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun...
DANIEL JOHNS

To be sure, debates will linger about whether Medicare is too large or too small. Debates remain abo...
MICHAEL JOHNS

I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor m...
JASPER JOHNS

The understanding's there and my job is to get my good kicking game in and whenever there's go-forwa...
ANDREW JOHNS

I'll just have to weigh it up and if I'm still playing well, training hard and enjoying my footy, th...
ANDREW JOHNS

I'll just have to weigh it up and if I'm still playing and playing well and training hard ... and en...
ANDREW JOHNS

We trained then and I don't think we put a ball down during ball work. A lot of the guys have played...
ANDREW JOHNS

That's too far ahead, I don't really know if I'll play that long for my club team,
ANDREW JOHNS

It takes so much toll on your body physically, and I think everybody knows mentally and emotionally ...
ANDREW JOHNS

I keep hearing I'm a good chance,
ANDREW JOHNS

Winning the grass roots approval of rugby league fans is just as rewarding as receiving accolades fr...
ANDREW JOHNS

(A) bit old and wiser and not going as crazy as I used to on the field trying to smash blokes, I'm l...
ANDREW JOHNS

I'm probably going to assess it a little bit next year, see how I'm feeling, how I pull up probably ...
ANDREW JOHNS

There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any...
JASPER JOHNS

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming ...
MICHAEL JOHNS

I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing o...
DANIEL JOHNS

Diversity should not be part of the bargaining process,
BOBBY JOHNS

We've gotten better, but we've got to be even better for this one,
BOBBY JOHNS

Jeff will tell you his kids can't walk and chew gum at the same time. But when it's time to play, he...
BOBBY JOHNS

I think they (Yellow Jackets) are better than they were last year, and I am not sure where we stand ...
BOBBY JOHNS

When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record co...
DANIEL JOHNS

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very ...
JASPER JOHNS

At that moment, Seb appeared, his broad shoulders pushed back as he swaggered towards them with a sm...
RACHAEL JOHNS

While the engine burn abort was unfortunate, we still expect to accomplish the rendezvous objectives...
JOHNS HOPKINS

My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in anoth...
JASPER JOHNS

Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.
JASPER JOHNS

I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting...
DANIEL JOHNS

Ultimately, in its collapse, Laos was important because it proved the validity of the so-called 'dom...
MICHAEL JOHNS

No chronology of Soviet atrocities can convey the crushing of the human spirit under Lenin and his s...
MICHAEL JOHNS

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming ...
MICHAEL JOHNS

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a paint...
JASPER JOHNS

There is a major conservation with the front-loaders because they use less water. So we try to get o...
CHRIS JOHNS

I didn't talk to Eddie at all about it. I injured my neck on Thursday doing weights but it probably ...
ANDREW JOHNS

Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thi...
JASPER JOHNS

It's almost too much of a nuisance for me. I'm not doing it again. This is ridiculous.
TED JOHNS

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew t...
JASPER JOHNS

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remov...
JASPER JOHNS

Compliance is a critical problem, ... and now you have a therapeutic entity that allows two medicati...
JOHNS HOPKINS

We wanted something so people who are interested in the program can stay in touch. I think it's goin...
CHRIS JOHNS

The reality is we're in a different marketplace, because general-interest magazines have come and go...
CHRIS JOHNS

We want you to find stories that are relevant, [that] you can apply directly to your life. Surprisin...
CHRIS JOHNS

Africa is not just a place; it's a million places. It's a million voices, ... We felt no one photogr...
CHRIS JOHNS

Africa is a million voices,
CHRIS JOHNS

Africa isn't one place. It's a million places. We felt that no single photograph could cover the dep...
CHRIS JOHNS

highlight astonishing stories of renewal, ingenuity and potential heard through unfiltered African v...
CHRIS JOHNS

There are no big groupie fans or anything.
DANIEL JOHNS

To me, these bids are classic top of the market stuff. The Irish property market can't defy the laws...
CHRIS JOHNS

A persons character is shown through their actions in life NOT where they sit on Sunday.
NAVONNE JOHNS

Some of the early embryonic stem cell passages were relatively aberration-free, at least using the t...
JOHNS HOPKINS

The Deep Impact experiment worked,
JOHNS HOPKINS

I had been living with no energy, falling asleep anytime, anywhere,
JOHNS HOPKINS

We've had a reduction of more than 35 percent of overall deaths from non-intentional injuries in the...
JOHNS HOPKINS

swift, smooth, and successful.
JOHNS HOPKINS

Have serious sun,
JOHNS HOPKINS

Clearly, adverse effects of ephedrine alkaloids can be serious, and indeed, fatal,
JOHNS HOPKINS

I always return from Africa energized and rejuvenated. … Largely because of the African voices -- ...
CHRIS JOHNS

We are assembling a list of comet ingredients that will be used by other scientists for years to com...
JOHNS HOPKINS

If a student has already paid tuition for his or her university, that's it, we don't take any money,
JOHNS HOPKINS

Visually significant cataract appears to be high among U.S. Hispanic individuals of Mexican descent,...
JOHNS HOPKINS

In much of the policy debates about fatherhood and marriage, it has been assumed that two-parent fam...
JOHNS HOPKINS

Although they might not be able to reduce community rates of violent crime, it's possible they can a...
JOHNS HOPKINS

That's why we say, 'Whatever you thought, think again.' Get rid of your misconceptions about Africa....
CHRIS JOHNS

We're serious about this. We want to be great cocktail party chatter, a great informative read. We a...
CHRIS JOHNS

The herpes virus that I found in the Asian elephants that have died is the same virus that is in Afr...
JOHNS HOPKINS

I don't think any point was proven. We played well the first game and came out ahead. We played well...
JIM JOHNS

It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it eve...
DANIEL JOHNS

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central Africa...
MICHAEL JOHNS

I tend to like things that already exist.
JASPER JOHNS

We got to push back the rhetoric, ... We have to fight the good fight.
DEBORAH JOHNS

There's so much negative information in the media. If the building of bridges and roads and schools ...
DEBORAH JOHNS

I pray for our wonderful men and women in uniform. They represent the 'best of the best
DEBORAH JOHNS

Cindy Sheehan certainly doesn't speak for me, our military families or our men and women serving in ...
DEBORAH JOHNS

I want Cindy to have an understanding that we still have troops over there with boots on the ground,...
DEBORAH JOHNS

The majority ? finally, someone is getting up to speak for the majority, ... And we're not going to ...
DEBORAH JOHNS

It's time to lay down the anger. We need to continue to uphold those people over there, to uphold th...
DEBORAH JOHNS

I'm here to tell you that military families support our troops AND their mission ? in spite of what ...
DEBORAH JOHNS

Free speech is a one-way street with them.
DEBORAH JOHNS

This group of painters had, from the 1870s on, gone to Europe. They brought impressionist styles bac...
ELIZABETH JOHNS

People love to look at art that draws one in, but they also want to learn something new. I believe t...
ELIZABETH JOHNS

Seeing paintings hung side by side and comparing them, people intuit. We're still regretting the los...
ELIZABETH JOHNS

Here’s what happens when a single mom meets New York City’s hottest fireman…

“The...
ISABELLA JOHNS

I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not ve...
DANIEL JOHNS

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work ...
JASPER JOHNS

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hel...
DANIEL JOHNS

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then ...
JASPER JOHNS

It was hard to keep our composure because we had so many good opportunities but didn't have much of ...
GREGG JOHNS

I see ourselves as one of the top teams in either division. We should be in the mix.
GREGG JOHNS

The one thing I've stressed to the team is that I don't want this season to be about Pete retiring o...
GREGG JOHNS

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.
GLYNIS JOHNS

Originally my father was a medical student. He suddenly gave up his studies and walked out to become...
GLYNIS JOHNS

Relatives cannot help you in the studios," she says. "You stand or fall by your own efforts.
GLYNIS JOHNS

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.
GLYNIS JOHNS

You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot ...
GLYNIS JOHNS

Ideas either come or they don't come.
JASPER JOHNS

I know they're saying get out of town, but I don't have any way to get out. If you don't have no mon...
HATTIE JOHNS

I know they're saying 'Get out of town,' but I don't have any way to get out. If you don't have no m...
HATTIE JOHNS

Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it...
MEGAN JOHNS

Those who claim to be closest to God are furthest from Heaven.
NAVONNE JOHNS

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that ...
JASPER JOHNS

You see it in the Major Leagues right now. Ten guys are hitting .300 and have six home runs already ...
KAREN JOHNS

You have to perform all the elements to win both games, and we didn't do that.
KAREN JOHNS

We don't seem to do that on a consistent basis. It's not one part of the lineup, it's a different pe...
KAREN JOHNS

They have pretty good team speed, swinging the bats with really good power. They rely on scoring a l...
KAREN JOHNS

We got great pitching all weekend, and we feel like we can win a lot of games if we can do that.
KAREN JOHNS

We have been able to put pressure on people, and we've never been able to come through with that big...
KAREN JOHNS

They're a complete team. They've won some games and they've got some consistency and that's exactly ...
KAREN JOHNS

I thought we were a little flat. I don't know what energy I thought we'd get playing at home, but it...
KAREN JOHNS

It's nice to start the season with two wins and it was very pleasing to come from behind and win. I ...
KAREN JOHNS

I have not really experienced any significant conflict with anyone in regard to my choice to be vega...
DANIEL JOHNS

There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily...
DANIEL JOHNS

Basically, the reason I'm vegan is because when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I began to under...
DANIEL JOHNS

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.
DANIEL JOHNS

Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records.
DANIEL JOHNS

I never really paid attention to sales until the second record.
DANIEL JOHNS

I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.
DANIEL JOHNS

So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.
DANIEL JOHNS

I start sweating and shaking and having panic attacks if I am not at home.
DANIEL JOHNS

I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time.
DANIEL JOHNS

I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like ...
DANIEL JOHNS

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.
DANIEL JOHNS

Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of c...
DANIEL JOHNS

I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record faili...
DANIEL JOHNS

Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.
DANIEL JOHNS

We were really motivated to do something with this record overseas, even though I hate touring.
DANIEL JOHNS

The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.
DANIEL JOHNS

With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically.
DANIEL JOHNS

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.
DANIEL JOHNS

I wasn't going to get stupid about it. There was only one way out, and it was getting real hot.
JEFF JOHNS

Concord's defense came ready to play. That is not the same defense I saw on tape. Obviously coach Sm...
MIKE JOHNS

they're the only team I've never beaten since I've been here. For me, it means a little something ex...
MICHAEL JOHNS

Relatives cannot help you in the studios. You stand or fall by your own efforts.
GLYNIS JOHNS

The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to soc...
GEOFF MULGAN

This campaign was special because we always kept the challenger mentality we had from the start. We ...
GEOFF DAVIS

As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and vir...
GEOFF MULGAN

Physical violence is always a bore in films today. We don't see how much it hurts. We don't ...
GEOFF DYER

One of my great heroes, John Berger, he's in his 80s now. One of the reasons that he's remai...
GEOFF DYER

As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from ou...
GEOFF MULGAN

The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sen...
GEOFF MULGAN

I drove 3,500 miles this summer on our family holiday, we drove across 10 countries. I have driven a...
GEOFF HOON

It would be nice to turn off that incessant churning of consciousness.
GEOFF DYER

For me, those little cinemas in Paris where I saw many art films for the first time meant that cinem...
GEOFF DYER

The holiday season can be an especially trying time for our service men, women, and families. Milita...
GEOFF STULTS

It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the U.S., quite...
GEOFF MULGAN

In terms of behaving in a civic way, I feel my behavior is always exemplary.
GEOFF DYER

The classic think-tank is supposed to be sitting in an attic thinking up grand ideas.
GEOFF MULGAN

Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But th...
GEOFF MULGAN

It's one of these things that I've been struck by for so long about America. You know, this ...
GEOFF DYER

While admiring the pleasing evidence of wealth, we become complicit in - or, at the very least, reco...
GEOFF DYER

Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plen...
GEOFF MULGAN

I did 'Good Morning America' with David Beckham. Oh, god, what a handsome devil that guy is.
GEOFF STULTS

Generally, I'm not anti the novel.
GEOFF DYER

Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, da...
GEOFF MULGAN

Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or...
GEOFF MULGAN

The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the n...
GEOFF MULGAN

L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissis...
GEOFF MULGAN

The lesson of travel seems to be so banal, but so great, which is that people are just so amazingly ...
GEOFF DYER

A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone ha...
GEOFF MULGAN

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and ap...
GEOFF MULGAN

Despite my involvement in difficult and sometimes controversial questions I have received consistent...
GEOFF HOON

So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to m...
GEOFF MULGAN

Writers are not obliged to deal with current events, but it happens that the big story of our times ...
GEOFF DYER

I was just about to sweep it up. Then I saw something move and got a bit of a fright.
GEOFF BROWN

I think the drug probably returns to market, but it returns in handcuffs.
GEOFF PORGES

are recovering the bodies and attempting to ascertain the cause of the crash.
GEOFF HOON

All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society ...
GEOFF MULGAN

There's a demand for car washing in North Vancouver that's undersupplied at this point, ... There's ...
GEOFF BAKER

Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team...
GEOFF MULGAN

I need to maintain a home in Derbyshire and in London to be able both to represent my constituents a...
GEOFF HOON

Tenacity. We're great guys in the clubhouse, but when the game starts we turn into a bunch of angry ...
GEOFF BLUM

The series 'Generation Kill' is, along with everything else, a sustained critique of the str...
GEOFF DYER

The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses the line and the villain who sometimes doesn't are just much more interesting.

Copied!

Geoff Johns

The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses the line and the villain who sometimes doesn't are just much more interesting.

Geoff Johns

Share:

Related

More Geoff Johns