Genndy Tartakovsky Quotes

I actually feel like comic book movies need to be better than your average movie.

People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.

I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.

It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?

It seems like they make every comic book into a film. 'Watchmen' is my favorite of all time.

I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best.

I love other movies that have been made since, but I think more than any comic book movie, 'Superman' just totally seemed to capture superheroes in ways that others have not.

I love to say that what's great about 'Legion' is that if you haven't read a comic book and you haven't seen an 'X-Men' movie, you can come in and understand it - and this can be your comic.

I look at the Marvel movies and the DC movies and various creators' creations, and I think, you know, that's really pretty cool.

It's just that... working on 'Green Lantern,' I saw how difficult it is to make that concept palatable, and how confused it all can be when you don't really know exactly where you're going with it or you don't really know how to access that world properly - that world comic book fans have been accessing for decades and falling in love with.

I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job.

If I get stuck doing comic-book films for the rest of my life, I'll be really happy.

There are too many good comic book writers out there. I'd rather remain a fanboy.

You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.

X-Men is massive, like nothing I've ever experienced. But great in its own way.

Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.

I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.

Seth Rogen told me to read 'Preacher,' and 'Preacher' was amazing.

I am always really respectful of anything that has the kind of longevity and fan base that something like DC Comics has and 'The Flash' series in particular has.

'Avengers' was a great comic-book movie. 'The Dark Knight Rises' is a great epic.

Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'

I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.

'Thunderbolts' I was mostly attracted to because I really wanted to write Punisher and Elektra and Deadpool, who are characters I have always really enjoyed. But the funny thing is that over time, I came to really like Red Leader; he became one of my favorite guys in the book. Sometimes characters surprise you.

I always loved Batman, the Michael Keaton 'Batman.' I loved those films, and Superman, but I was never a real comic book geek.

I look at the Christian Bale movies, the 'Batman' films, and that shows you that superhero movies don't just have to be about men in tights.