Alex Pettyfer Quotes

With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.

Having the Stitch character, the villain that becomes a hero, coming from outer space, it took a very difficult and complex story and put it into a simpler, kinder time.

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

At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.

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

I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.

'E.T.' was far-fetched. 'E.T.' was this wimpy-looking kid that came to Earth to pick some plants, but he came from the Andromeda Galaxy to do that.

The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'

I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.

In DC Comics, Blue Devil is a superhero who came out of a movie.

My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.

I love playing an alien.

I think 'E.T.' came along at a time when it was probably meant to be.

I wanted to create characters who could do fantastic things but who weren't exactly superheros - characters who exist on sort of a spectrum from super-ability to disability.

My Destroyed Universe is very similar to that of the 'Guardians of the Galaxy.'

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

In the James Cameron blockbuster 'Avatar,' 3-D cinematography is the real star. The bugs and crawling creatures seem to slither into the theater seats. The floating mountains of the planet Pandora hover gloriously overhead. And the Na'Vi, Pandora's 10-foot-tall, blue-skinned natives, come convincingly to life.

'Flying Jatt' is a superhero movie, and the villain needs to be really strong.

There was a girl who could fly, a boy who had bees living inside him, a brother and sister who could lift boulders over their heads.

Just what we need," moaned Holly. "Artemis Fowl with magical powers.

Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.

Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is: what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problems of the modern novel is: what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos.

...but I also can't prove that mushrooms could not be intergalactic spaceships spying on us.

their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.

It's very common to say that Star Wars in the late '70s, that was kind of perfect for Cold War culture and the aftermath of Vietnam in the '60s to have an upbeat, hopeful, cartoonish tale of a hero's journey. I think those explanations are easy to offer and almost always wrong.