Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?
Huh," said Percy. "Never seen Jason fly before. He looks like a blond superman.
Duncan Sheik and I are trucking along on 'American Psycho,' which is sort of the anti-Superman, you know? But it's a lot of fun, too, in a much, much darker way, obviously.
I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.
Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
People have called me Superman my whole life. In various sports, that seems to be the common theme. My favorite superhero is actually the Incredible Hulk. He's the only superhero that can't die.
Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.
'Superman/Wonder Woman,' people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasn't emotionally deep. Who knows?
Superman was my first comic back in the '50s; that was me under the bedspread with the flashlight reading comic books.
The thing that's been exciting about 'Superman' is to see how the character has developed through generations.
We were just emerging from the Depression. Superman started in 1938. Batman started in 1939. So, we were just recovering.
Superman tends to stand very upright, and he's very symmetrical, and those are actually the most difficult poses for me to draw.
That's definitely a part of who Superman is and definitely who Clark on the farm is. It translates to how calm he is. I feel like I'm pretty calm most of the time and relaxed, which gives presence to the character.
[as the Giant flies toward the missle] Hogarth Hughes: [in the Giant's mind] You are who you choose to be. The Iron Giant: Superman.
I think the very simplest way to show Superman's power is to have him punch someone that's powerful.
I vividly remember my first 'Superman' comic, which my granddad bought me when I was about 7. From that point on, all I wanted to do is draw comics. And specifically, superhero and science fiction comics. Basically I used to copy comic books, and dra...
There's been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it's 'E.T.,' 'Starman,' or other movies about trying to connect with humanity; it struck me that's what a Superman story really is.
As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
I think of Superman as the ultimate vanilla hero. He's this perfect refugee, this perfect immigrant from another planet who embodies the American dream.
