Top 25 David S. Goyer Quotes

I think Wonder Woman is a very difficult character to crack. More difficult than Superman, who is also more difficult than Batman. Also, a lot of people in Hollywood believe that it’s hard to do a big action movie with a female lead. I happen to disagree with that.

Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show – it’s called ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’ for a reason, and it’s not just metaphorical.

Ever since I was a little kid, I told my mom that I want to go to Hollywood and make a ‘Batman’ movie.

During my career I’ve enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences.

It’s ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of people won’t even read science fiction books.

The thing about ‘Batman Begins’ is that he’s a character that people thought they knew a lot about, and yet you’re able to identify the spirit in his life where even in the comic books it’s not explored that much.

As the CG in motion capture made it look realistic, it put more of an onus on the game makers to make the dialogue they’re saying more realistic. It doesn’t matter what they say when they’re 8-bits, but if they look almost photo-real, it matters. More and more, the games industry is realising that.

I honestly love nothing better than digging into a really good serialized show, whether it’s ‘Breaking Bad’ or ‘Game of Thrones’ or ‘Justified.’

‘Flash Forward’ was one of the big heartbreaks of my career. It was just this very frustrating experience. If we’d been allowed to tell the story we wanted to tell, I don’t know that it would’ve been more successful or not. There’s no way to know.

There’s been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it’s ‘E.T.,’ ‘Starman,’ or other movies about trying to connect with humanity; it struck me that’s what a Superman story really is.

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you’ll see better movie adaptations.

I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn’t good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He’d sometimes destroy what he was working on.

I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn’t look like us or even be humanoid, like ‘E.T.’

It took a while for the first ‘Blade’ to get made, and Marvel decided they liked the Whistler character so much, when Blade guest starred on the ‘Spider-Man’ cartoon, they put Whistler on the cartoon, and the movie hadn’t come out yet.

‘Batman Begins’ came out and it was really successful, and it had gritty naturalism. And suddenly… I can’t tell you how many movies I was pitched where it was, ‘We want to do what you did with ‘Batman’ but with ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,’ or whatever.

Hollywood loves pre-validation. Even if someone has a property that was first published as a comic book that sold only 5,000 copies, for Hollywood, that is a stamp of approval. ‘Oh, it was already published in another medium? Must be good!’ They get assurance from knowing that someone else already took the risk.

I am an artist, and I understand the pros and cons of being an artist, and the pressures of being an artist, and how much being an artist can be torture to people around you; you know, you friends and your family and how material you can be, and how it’s hard to take criticism and all the things like that.

What Christopher Nolan and I have done with ‘Superman’ is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the ‘Batman’ trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in.

I think there’s really only been one successful video game adaptation, and that was probably ‘Tomb Raider.’ Whether or not you thought it was a good movie, it was successful financially.

‘Call Of Duty’ initially cut its teeth on World War II simulation stuff, and then we gradually advanced to the end of the Cold War, but you can’t keep doing the same thing over and over again. And I think that because ‘Call Of Duty’ cut its teeth on presenting ‘realism,’ in quotes… verisimilitude.

There’s a theory in gameplay, particularly in first person shooters, that sometimes you don’t want to have that much of a character because then it destroys the experience of the player being that character.

Superman is not as innately cool as Batman.

I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn’t expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to pigeonhole people, and there’s nothing an actor loves more than to do something different.

I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I’m a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It’s the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.