James Wan Quotes

I actually feel like comic book movies need to be better than your average movie.

I love other movies that have been made since, but I think more than any comic book movie, 'Superman' just totally seemed to capture superheroes in ways that others have not.

Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'

It seems like they make every comic book into a film. 'Watchmen' is my favorite of all time.

I think about it, and I realize there's been some version of a Batman or Spiderman or Superman franchise since I was a boy, since before I was a boy.

X-Men is massive, like nothing I've ever experienced. But great in its own way.

A lot of people who saw 'The Avengers' didn't read comic books, don't like comic book movies, and enjoyed it. That was huge for me.

Being a hardcore old-school comic book lover, it took me a while to accept the need for comic book movies.

I like movies with superheroes - one of my favorite movies of all time was 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.'

People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.

The comic book industry has turned into the wellspring for all of these movies that are all based on the comic books.

It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?

I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job.

I look at the Christian Bale movies, the 'Batman' films, and that shows you that superhero movies don't just have to be about men in tights.

If you look at Stan Lee and the Marvel comics, yes, there's a lot of awesome, serious and dramatic action that takes place.

I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best.

Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way.

The '80s convergence of comics' new adult sensibility with the movies' advancing technology was bound to catch the attention of even slow-on-the-uptake Hollywood, and this particularly was true when 'Watchmen' and 'The Dark Knight Returns' became phenomena.

You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.

In this day and age, where you have a lot of comic book movies made every day, and most of them are really good boys, it's important to have a couple bad boys out there, too.

Superhero stories are kind of in my DNA from childhood on, so I think I'm genetically drawn to playing in the genre when the opportunity presents itself.

We like to make the Marvel comics films because they're fun. Families can go see them together. They're entertaining. They aspire to inspire, and that is cool.

Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.

I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.

I'm a lifer for the 'X-Men' movies.