Jim Starlin Quotes

I never, ever do a film and just kind of move on. I think of them as children of mine, and you don't give birth to a baby and just leave it on someone else's doorstep. You see it all the way through college.

If I go away, I take a little picture of my son. It's in a frame with a speaker, and he recorded a birthday message for me when he was nine or 10. I can't listen to it without filling up.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

All my films are all my children.

Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating.

It's important to us to see the development and growth. At the end of the day, it's our baby. Genetically it's ours. It's our embryo. We feel very connected.

My dad, like, he's the most trusting human in the world.

I'm very emotional and possessive about all my films.

When it's something you really adore, I think you don't want to be the one who accidentally writes a crap episode.

The best of me now lives on in my two little women, baby girls I was lucky enough to be able to make with my own body.

My attachment to my wedding ring is a powerful symbol of the infinite love that I have for my wife and children.

Once Bob commits to something, it's almost like a child. He doesn't want anybody else to take care of it, even if it might be to his detriment.

I have to take care of my family, my team, and my legacy.

It would take some encouragement for me to accept other people's opinions on how I should present my work because my work means a lot to me.

I have one brother who's five years older than me and he was a huge part of my childhood.

A lot of the projects I've been involved with have been my babies, and I'm not going to give my baby to anyone else.

Sometimes even if a common friend holds Soha's hand, I get jealous. But other days, she can go out for dinner and dancing with someone and I wouldn't think much about it.

I love Mary very much. I love her family very much. This is just an issue in which we disagree.

I'm a very protective person and I'm very, I don't want to say shy, but I tend to fall for people once I've been around them for a minute because I trust them and I'm willing to let them into my world a little more, so I can definitely say I've fallen for a friend.

Home for me is wherever my wife and kid are.

You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time you’d given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldn’t know the outcome for a long time.

Every character I do is something special to me. Every time you score with a great character relationship in a movie, it becomes your baby.

A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon

Emotional affairs, those are the only real affairs; those are the real ones.

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.