Andrew Gross Quotes

Spider-Man's probably my favorite. You see, Batman is a billionaire and there's nothing really cool about a billionaire saving the world. But Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a conflicted character who puts on a suit and saves the world. I love that.

What's cool about Spider-Man is that it's everybody - anyone, you put on the suit, anyone believes that you're Spider-Man. That's what's charming about the character. He's anyone. He's a huge nerd that ends up being this huge superhero.

People like Superman, The Flash - they just feel limited in who they are and what you can do with them because everyone knows who they are and what they do. Someone like Animal Man feels very open to interpretation.

I think it would be great to play a superhero. That will be one of my goals.

When you have a fully-realized Avatar, it's like Superman, and how do you make that interesting?

I don't see myself becoming a superhero.

I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.

I always wanted to be a superhero.

I remember when I was a kid, I would watch 'Superman', and I was super into the feeling of knowing that Clark Kent is Superman and no one knows.

What, am I supposed to run around in a little red cape and save the world?

I used to think I actually was Batman.

Whereas Superman is a godlike guy from another planet and Batman is this mysterious, unknowable billionaire, everyone in 'Spider-Man' is human and flawed.

I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown.

When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.

Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.

I'm a big fan of domino masks, like Zorro, or Robin. You could put a domino mask on anything, and it becomes a superhero. You put a domino mask on a milkman, and he becomes, like, Super Milkman.

It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.

Since childhood, I have been a fan of Spider Man because, according to me, he has the maximum humanity; he is very human, very mortal. So he even gets hurt. He has a poor background, but when he wears the costume, he forgets all of that, all the pressures of the society on him.

What captivated me about 'The Flash' is the human drama in it.

Most superheroes, when you look at origin stories - before they invent their costume, they just go with what's around.

'Nimona' was originally a vague idea I had when I was in high school, when I was just getting into shapeshifting characters. It was a straightforward superhero story at the time. Nimona was named Nightshade, and she had an eyepatch for some reason. There was nothing really special about it, though.

Nobody beats Superman. Everybody else needs a costume - Superman needs a costume to be normal.

I love the levels, the depth, that the character has. He is the only member of the Justice League who cannot take off his costume. He is Cyborg 24/7.

I've always wanted to be Batman, but I don't naturally tend towards Batman. I tend towards Robin, but I did get to play Superman.

One of the things that's great is that Batman is a character that lends himself to very personal stories.