Joe Johnston Quotes

Chris Evans has embodied Captain America as well as any actor has ever embodied an iconic pop-culture figure like that. I go back to Chris Reeve as Superman as the gold standard, and I think Evans is right there.

Maybe it's every kid's dream to go into a pod and come out looking like Captain America. And you don't even have to exercise or lift weights! It's great!

You know, the reward for 'Captain America' is amazing. It's always fun to see a giant spectacle film and see the fun stuff - the special effects.

De Niro didn't gain all that weight to play Jake La Motta just to prove he could get fat - every single one of those transformative things is grounded in the character.

I did a film a few years ago where I gained a lot of weight for it. I was happy to do that because it was called for in the script.

I love 'Captain America.' I love those fight sequences, but I've seen them multiple times.

She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.

The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies.

I don't know what it is about me that gets cast in specific roles. Some people would say, 'You're just a pretty face,' but on 'Battlestar,' I'm not looking pretty every day. I'm pretty banged up.

'Captain America' was probably the most universally positive experience I've had in this mad business.

To the image of the characters, I do change my appearance. For example, I gain weight and I lose weight sometimes, and I grow my hair and cut it. Acting is all about physical expression, so I need to change my appearance for all the characters.

'Hawkeye' is much more intimate than any of the superhero works I've done before.

I saw 'Captain America' in 3D. It's cool. I liked the beginning. It's a really good setup.

You could say that Iron Man was a second-tier character, and it turned out very successfully. I simply think it's down to the movie itself, and whether people enjoy the movie, are involved in the movie, and that it entertains them. From that point of view, the movie has to stand alone.

That's another reason I did Daredevil: I didn't get killed off in it.

No one has approached me about Captain Marvel. But I don't know if I'd even want to play Captain Marvel. I would much rather play a villain and be nasty. It's more fun.

There's so many different things that you can physically change for a character.

I love Ben Affleck. I think he will be a great Batman. Ben can bring the humanity to all his parts. He can play the good guy, the bad guy, but behind that grin he's got, there is always that humanity.

To play a Punjabi guy in 'Rab se Sohna Isshq,' I had to put on muscle.

'Captain America: First Avenger' is very much a Joe Johnston film.

For 'Rangbaaz,' I had put on weight to play the gangster and for '83,' I had to lose all that weight.

In 'Dhil,' my character wants to become a cop, and those who want to become cops have a small waist. In 'Saamy,' where I play a cop, my waist is thicker. Because after you become a cop, that's how you look.

For me, changing my physical appearance for a character is never a problem. If I have to look a certain way for a role, I just do it.

When a role involves physical transformation, it helps build the character better.

Whatever I had to prove in the 'Flash' world about myself as an actor, I proved as Henry Allen.