Stephen Amell Quotes

I'm completely obsessed with the film versions of 'Superman'.

I read Superman comics when I was a kid.

I understand the rules of Superman - not necessarily better than anyone else - but better than a normal filmmaker would. After doing 'Watchmen' and digging that deep into the why of superheroes, when Superman is presented to you, I felt like I was in a unique position to say 'I get this guy. I know what this is.'

Superman has been around for so long; he's been around for, what, eight decades now? And he goes through these different eras where different aspects of who he is get emphasized.

Superman has been my favorite character since I was six years old, and I have more comics featuring Superman than any other single character.

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

I think the little girl in Smallville is terrific, but I only watched it once.

When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.

I'm a fan of Superman as created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Remember that Jerry and Joe created a character that was the biggest superhero of all.

For me, Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster's character was Superman.

I watched 'E.T.' when I was a kid every day. Well, not all of it every day; I'd pause it and start over again. But I've watched 'E.T.' about 400 times in my life.

'Superman' has always been about Lois Lane, Superman and Clark Kent and this love triangle between these three people who really are only two people.

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.

Nobody beats Superman. Everybody else needs a costume - Superman needs a costume to be normal.

Win or lose, I am programmed to do more. That's because I am the other son of Jorel - Superman.

I do like Superman as a character, and I have followed him throughout the years.

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

I don't want to see Superman replaced with Superboy.

Superman has evolved continually in the comic books over the course of 75 years. He couldn't even fly for years in the original comic books. Kryptonite wasn't added until the '60s. All sorts of things like this. If a character is going to remain vital, he does have to change with the times.

I think there is always romantic tension between Lois Lane and Clark Kent.

There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Superman and Lois Lane.

The thing is, the Superman comics have been around a long time, and so have the movies. They've done a lot of Superman movies, as they have with Batman.

Christopher Reeve so completely inhabited the character Superman when he was in that costume, and that had such a huge effect on me as a child, watching those films back in the '70s. There was so much of that character that was, for me, Superman.

Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me.

Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.