David S. Goyer Quotes

The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in.

Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.

I was four or five, and my mom got all the Power Rangers to come through. I thought it was really them. I started crying tears of joy. It was so amazing. My favorite Power Ranger was the green one. He wasn't in every episode - he was rare, like Based God. He was like the Based God Power Ranger.

There are certain historical figures of such importance that we need to know everything about them, which is why books about Napoleon, Lincoln, Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, and the great religious founders continue to proliferate; these lives require constant reevaluation and interpretation.

Doc Savage, Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon... these were the kinds of characters I was thinking about as I was developing Jonas Quantum because there aren't that many brand new characters being introduced anymore.

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them.

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.

The 'Heirs of Alexandria' series mixes the Renaissance with magic and demons, based on a changed theological history.

A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington... people who are different, who are larger than life.

Some of the most learned of the people were chosen to make known the lives of those lords in songs.

In the late '60s, there were the the three B's: The Beatles, Batman, and Bond.

Classical heroes are usually much larger than life. They're not quite human beings. They're somehow larger than human scale.

I like going back in time and writing historical fantasy. I use some real historical characters as a background to give depth to the fantasy. And I throw my fictional characters into the midst of this, and, so far, it has turned out interesting.

There's Batman, there's Superman, there's Wonder Woman. She's the full-blown real deal.

It's good sometimes to have a character that starts as one thing and ends as another, but James Bond, Hercules, these are pretty enduring stories.

I'm a big historical-fiction fan.

'Hamilton' and 'Shuffle Along' are closely connected because the ensembles are all friends, and they both deal with historical figures and the impact they've made on American life.

There were three people I always wanted to meet: Michael Jackson, Muhammad Ali, and Nelson Mandela.

'The Grace of Kings' was meant to read like a set of legends about characters who were bigger than life.

History is filled with fictional people.

You know, you can't see or touch and isn't embodied. But they were all fallible, the Gods. And they would kind of rise and fall. You know, they all, like Achilles, Icarus, you know, they all had their high points and their low points.

Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian.

Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.

We've never pulled from the toy line. We've always pulled from the mythology. What's great is there's so much mythology, so there's always stuff to pull from that. It never lines up perfectly for a movie; it's just like adapting a book or anything else, you know? But you come up with things to create, you come up with different ideas, but fundamentally the ideas always start from the mythology.