When I’ve been asked in the past about my dream role, I always expressed how much I’d like to be a superhero.
I’m a big Batman fan; to be honest, to be a part of any superhero movie would really fulfill all of my childhood fantasies. If I could get beaten up by Batman, and just be part of the franchise, even getting kicked through a window would be great!
If I had to direct or produce a show, it would be about a young Black girl who is a superhero and helps save the world.
Squirrel Girl is basically a Silver Age character in the modern age, and that makes her a fish out of water in a lot of ways. She likes being a superhero. She likes fighting crime. She doesn’t sit around brooding in the darkness of her Squirrel Hole trying to figure out new ways to make crime pay.
I always thought, like everyone, that Hollywood was a superhero factory.
I mean, I’m no superhero.
In DC Comics, Blue Devil is a superhero who came out of a movie.
I feel like I’m the last rap superhero. I really do. I feel like everybody else, they seem to be a bit victimized, and I don’t feel like that’s me.
Peter Parker is probably the most relatable superhero, maybe ever, because he goes through something that basically everyone has to go through. Whether it’s puberty or talking to girls or doing homework, he does it in such a human way.
I don’t think Luke Cage as a superhero is something that has changed dramatically from the ’70s to now. He’s a black man going through the same thing as other people of colour – it’s just that he has superpowers.
All the PG-13 superhero movies are depriving me of the gore that I need.
At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that’s just my definition.
I always said I just wanted to be an artist that made like $500 a week from music and anything on top would be a bonus, so everything that’s happened to me now is unreal. Like, I really can’t believe it. It’s like when you watch a Netflix show and the main character becomes a superhero; I feel like I became a superhero.
I would love to be a superhero.
People always complain that superhero movies end with a big fight scene where they’re tearing up a city, and there’s a portal opening up, and they have to close it… I wanted to have a climactic scene that subverted those familiar ideas.
It would be a really great to do a Marvel film – not even playing a superhero: just being part of that universe would be amazing.
The mythos of superheroes is our mythos today. They are American myths. ‘Captain America,’ ‘Iron Man,’ ‘Hulk’ – these are the biggest movies in the world. But sometimes, superhero movies can be a little bit thin.
The difference between a Marvel superhero and a DC superhero is that we place Marvel superheroes in the real world that we recognize and that we know.
If Spider-Man is your ground level superhero, I wanted to come up with a ground-level villain. I wanted to figure out if I could turn a regular guy into a super-villain.
I don’t know if there is anyone who wouldn’t want to play some kind of superhero. I don’t know if the world is getting sick of superhero movies or not, but I think you will endlessly have actors who are intrigued by the idea of playing a superhero.
In truth, I’ve never been a big superhero fan. I don’t mind some of the movies, and a couple of the cartoons were alright – that Batman series from the early nineties where Mark Hamill voiced the Joker is sweetness. But largely, I’ve not really had much time for superheroes.
As a filmmaker, I don’t want to limit myself to one kind of movie. After ‘Headhunters,’ I went to Hollywood and read a lot of scripts: lots of action thrillers and heist movies, and superhero films.
We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.
I loved superhero movies growing up.
Dad is and always will be my living, breathing superhero.
Role model, as far as my kids, I try to be more like a superhero than a role model ’cause I don’t want them to go through what I went through, like, growing up and stuff.
Dopinder wants to help Deadpool fight… To become a superhero. But Deadpool right away says ‘You’re gonna die’ and ‘There’s no way you’re gonna do it.’ So, Dopinder has to prove to him that he is ready to take on more responsibility.
I came to Hollywood and felt myself an outsider, and I was sent all these action thrillers and superhero scripts.
They make three types of movies, and if you don’t make one of those three, you have to find independent financing: It’s either big-action superhero tent-pole thing, or it’s an animated film, or it’s an R-rated, raunchy sex comedy. They don’t make movies about real people.
I want to create a superhero… which everyone will say that we have a superhero called ‘A Flying Jatt’.
I have the greatest fans. I have fans that come from soap opera world. I have fans that come from superhero world, which are a whole different section of fans. They’re so cool. When people are fanatical about something, it’s contagious.
If you’ve learned anything from the modern superhero myth, if you see a bat around and it bites you, you have a 75 percent chance of ending up a superhero. Otherwise, you’ll probably get really sick. But it’d be cool to be a superhero. You don’t need to be too afraid.
The Will Smith that you see in movies is exactly the same as Will Smith in real life. Except for when he plays a superhero, because the real Will Smith can’t fly. He can only hover.
Say what you want about superhero movies and how much they make and how much they hurt other movies. I don’t buy any of it. I just think they’re so good.
I love watching the superhero movies, and I would love to make one. But in a way, ‘Drive’ is probably the greatest superhero movie ever made.
I always look at these superhero films, and I see people hurdling towards at a hundred miles per hour, and then they get up, shake their head, and charge back at a hundred miles per hour. Nobody seems to really get injured or hurt. I don’t find any threat in that. There is no tension in that whatsoever.
You know when you have a party as a kid, and your mom hires a fairy, princess, or superhero to come host the party? I was Fairy Lavender. I loved it. It was good training for theater.
I’ve had tragedy in my life, and it doesn’t stop comedy, so I think it’s important to do both. Particularly in a superhero movie, but in any movie that accesses all people. Nobody wants to be abused for two hours.
I’m a big fan of domino masks, like Zorro, or Robin. You could put a domino mask on anything, and it becomes a superhero. You put a domino mask on a milkman, and he becomes, like, Super Milkman.
The beauty of Captain America is that you didn’t have to come from a distant planet, like Superman, or he didn’t have to be born into a family of billionaires like Bruce Wayne. He happened to be in the right place at the right time, and someone gave him a magic potion, and he grew muscles and became a superhero.
Salman was an amazing human being. There are lot of things about him for years, but he’s one of the most genuine, helpful guys out there. There’s Salman Khan the superhero, and there’s that gentle guy who pulls out a charcoal pencil and comes up with some soulful, pure art pieces.
Like every mom, you try to juggle, but I also want people to know that you don’t have to be a superhero. I’m not a superhero; I have a team of people who help me. I have a great family support system.
I like superhero films, and I love Star Wars movies, but I want to make sure there’s a wide diaspora of films getting made.
When we started ‘Arrow,’ there weren’t really a lot of superhero shows in general. And it was a burden on us because it was, ‘Are you going to fail or succeed?’ And now they’re everywhere.
A lot of new dads don’t realise that you can’t take your 5-year-old along to see something like ‘The Avengers.’ Modern superhero films are too violent, and the dialogue is far too convoluted for a child.
I’m not into superhero movies, but I love cartoons. Tweety bird is my favourite.
I love the idea of writing these huge, bombastic characters; I’ll stay in the superhero world as long as I can.
I would really love to play a superhero. That is definitely up there on my list. Captain Marvel especially. That would be so cool.
For me, I really liked the idea of playing a non-superhero on a superhero show.
She’s like a Barbie, then she wants to be a superhero, or coming out of a spaceship and everything’s pink. She makes a certain move that’s ghetto hood mixed with a little robot so its like I’m evolving Nicki Minaj and developing her style. She’s fearless, and I love her.
People have called me Superman my whole life. In various sports, that seems to be the common theme. My favorite superhero is actually the Incredible Hulk. He’s the only superhero that can’t die.
Sana Takeda is a genius. It’s really that simple. Her vision and sense of story and beauty is beyond compare. I loved working with her on ‘X-23.’ I knew, though, that she could do much more beyond the constraints of a traditional superhero story.
I have to also get into producing if I want to see these stories being made… Let’s venture out and do projects with people of different ethnicities: not just black but also Asian actors and Asian superhero films. Just an equality across the board.
