Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.

You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films.

Put the hero back in the super hero movies, because I think 'super' might have taken over.

Superman when he goes after someone is essentially not trying to beat them, he is trying to save them from themselves... You're looking at a God who walks amongst men!

Whats special about Superman is that he will always make the right choice.

I am, at the end of the day, a guy who loves story.

The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark childhood.

When you break something, you´re not just breaking the thing, you´re like hurting everyone who made it was.

Flaxfield died on a Friday which was a shame, because he always ate a trout for dinner on Friday, and it was his favourite.

Don’t despair nowyou fell in love with the maskand not what was behindit touched the chords inside your heartand made it beatand now that you have seen behind itdon’t despair

The richest man is he who lives simply but has an abundance of love and kindness to give away.

The core of beauty is simplicity.

Damaging the enemy financially is fair game.

I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood.

It's a treat to be kissed, even goodbye.

Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.