Ang Lee Quotes

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

Everything I do with my day is related to Superwoman. I'm either doing conference calls or writing a script or reading a script, editing a video, shooting a video.

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

I'm not really interested in being a superhero. That's not a box I've been trying to check off.

If Spider-Man is your ground level superhero, I wanted to come up with a ground-level villain. I wanted to figure out if I could turn a regular guy into a super-villain.

I think the very simplest way to show Superman's power is to have him punch someone that's powerful.

I think that's the thing. I don't want to date a celebrity. I want to date a normal person. So I'm looking for a normal person.

I'm a regular person with an extraordinary job.

He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he would look like he was flying, I suppose. It was just natural to draw him like that.

I just like being a regular person.

I'm just a regular guy.

I'm a very normal guy. Like, I'm an average dude.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and John Cena, in 'The Wall,' are superheroes. They're very grounded, but the amount of training and stuff that soldiers bring to the field, they're like Iron Man.

I didn't really know of 'Black Lightning' until I got the script and started to investigate - it wasn't a hero that I grew up with. So I didn't know if his powers were natural or if it was the suit, but those things are, for me, very important. I really like the idea that his powers are his - that whether he has the suit or not, he has them.

I'm just a regular person, like any other ordinary person is.

I really wish I were a superhero.

The agents of S.M.A.S.H. are the most powerful team in the Marvel universe in terms of muscle power.

I'm a common dude.

Isn't it amazing how the X-Men always managed to be ahead of everybody's curve no matter how they look at it?

Marvel is at its best when we see how an ordinary person has something extraordinary happen to them - whether it's Tony Stark or Bruce Banner or Peter Parker.

I would love to play a superhero. I sometimes walk around thinking, 'If I were a superhero, what would my superpower be?'

Never seen Jason fly before," Percy grumbled. "He looks like a blond Superman

I'm not trying to have Jake Gyllenhaal's baby. I'm not a major fashionista. I'm not going through a lesbian phase. I'm just normal. I'm just really freakin' normal.

I hope what people see in me is that I'm a normal guy, and that people who look as I do can do normal things.