Ransom Riggs Quotes

Today's action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people.

Prior to 'Action' and 'Justice League 1,' there was no label 'superhero' for a superpowered being. It's really the emergence of Superman and the Justice League that gets the public comfortable with the idea of people amongst us who have extraordinary power and that they've agreed to be our champions.

You can't be a superhero or super mom.

He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he would look like he was flying, I suppose. It was just natural to draw him like that.

I'm not really interested in being a superhero. That's not a box I've been trying to check off.

I didn't really know of 'Black Lightning' until I got the script and started to investigate - it wasn't a hero that I grew up with. So I didn't know if his powers were natural or if it was the suit, but those things are, for me, very important. I really like the idea that his powers are his - that whether he has the suit or not, he has them.

My favorite interview question is, 'If you could have a superpower, what would it be?'

Marvel is at its best when we see how an ordinary person has something extraordinary happen to them - whether it's Tony Stark or Bruce Banner or Peter Parker.

Everything I do with my day is related to Superwoman. I'm either doing conference calls or writing a script or reading a script, editing a video, shooting a video.

I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.

I don't have a superpower.

I wouldn't mind being like X-Men and having the claws. I mean, I don't think they'd let me play football, but it would look cool.

Magneto is classically known for being, like, a caricature of a supervillain who gives a lot of speeches, likes to fly up, teach people a lesson, make society look at themselves.

I really kind of always wondered, if I did Superman, what I would do, and what I would be able to do, because it's a little harder for me, being kind of a realistic guy, to imagine doing a character who almost has no limits to his powers.

The agents of S.M.A.S.H. are the most powerful team in the Marvel universe in terms of muscle power.

I think the very simplest way to show Superman's power is to have him punch someone that's powerful.

The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?

The mutants I like - Wolverine. The action heroes I like, they have weapons; they are more visceral. So I filled the comic with characters like that, and we got big results.

'X-Men' or 'Avengers!' I want to be a mutant or an Avenger.

Never seen Jason fly before," Percy grumbled. "He looks like a blond Superman

I always wanted to be a superhero.

With the second 'Captain America,' we really pushed the envelope in terms of what this guy is capable of, which I was excited to see. Because in the first 'Captain America,' he's just strong. In 'Avengers,' it was still, in my opinion, a little bit 'punch, punch, kick, kick.'

I would love to be a superhero.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and John Cena, in 'The Wall,' are superheroes. They're very grounded, but the amount of training and stuff that soldiers bring to the field, they're like Iron Man.

I really wish I were a superhero.