Roz Chast Quotes

I am very big into superheroes.

In truth, I've never been a big superhero fan. I don't mind some of the movies, and a couple of the cartoons were alright - that Batman series from the early nineties where Mark Hamill voiced the Joker is sweetness. But largely, I've not really had much time for superheroes.

It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.

I always had this fascination with superheroes. Who didn't love Hulk and Spider-Man?

I was in the superhero game at the wrong time.

I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.

I'm not the biggest comic book fan.

I guess my journey with comics began with stuff like Spider-Man and Batman. I started off with mainstream superhero stuff, which I've never abandoned.

I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?

I tend to stay away from the comics.

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

I like the superhero comic books, and I like to see what the actors do creatively with the characters and how they bring these superheroes to life in the movies.

I was always a fan of Spider-Man and most superheroes. There aren't a whole lot of little boys out there that aren't.

I would really love to play a superhero. That is definitely up there on my list. Captain Marvel especially. That would be so cool.

I've never been a superhero-comic fan exactly.

We don't have a superhero culture. Comic books and superheroes are part of American culture. We have 'Amar Chitrakatha,' etc.

I love superhero movies.

I was in the beginning when [comic book superheroes] started, but not anymore. Now I expect it. I've gotten very used to it.

I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture. Not because I'm such a high brow intellectual and bloody European. But it's just something that I was never into. Not because of any superiority. I don't know why.

Just look at the cinema itself: It's comprised of lots of movies about graphic novels, and if you're not 20 years old and wearing a cape and a mask and white, you're out of business. Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional.

I'm not a superhero fan. I don't see those films. I'm not interested.

I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some people need to find a different hobby.

The fundament of a superhero is the guy in tights saving innocent people from bad things. It's amazing how infrequently that seems to happen in superhero comics these days.

I just think adding superheroes to something instantly makes it more interesting. I have a friend who says every movie should either be a Spider-Man movie, or at least have Spider-Man in it. I thought it was such a brilliant quote. It kind of is true, in a weird way.

You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too.