Ann Nocenti : (2) " I’m a huge lover of ‘Seven Samurai’ and anything Kurosawa ever did. The comedic work out of Japan in terms of martial arts movies, some of them are hilarious. " - Ann Nocenti " I want Green Arrow to have fun. I don’t want him to be a tortured hero. I mean, I’ve written plenty of tortured heroes, like Daredevil. But it’s all there in Daredevil’s origin as to why he’d be a tortured adult. Green Arrow doesn’t have that kind of origin. In fact, he’s such a clean slate that he doesn’t even have an origin anymore. " - Ann Nocenti