Ben Wheatley Quotes

I've been dying to do a Marvel picture for so long.

Everybody wants to be in the next Marvel movie.

I don't think people are experiencing superhero fatigue. Do you hear people complaining that there are too many action movies? I think it's good entertainment.

How many superhero movies can we have? It seems like there are 19 a week. They're making money, though, and people are going to see them. So, I get it. I understand completely.

I love commercial cinema.

I look at the Marvel movies and the DC movies and various creators' creations, and I think, you know, that's really pretty cool.

Marvel movies, are seeming slightly less exciting now that Star Wars has appeared and everything.

It's amazing what these superhero movies have become.

I think in the wake of the domination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, everyone is now looking for a grand plan.

If I didn't do 'Batman,' 'Birdman' wouldn't have happened.

I'm not gonna rush out and see the next 'Batman;' I'm not big on formula movies.

Say what you want about superhero movies and how much they make and how much they hurt other movies. I don't buy any of it. I just think they're so good.

I don't want to do every independent film offered to me.

I've been seeing superhero movies as long as I can remember. I don't think they're going anywhere.

Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do.

The distribution systems and the cinemas have adopted to the blockbusters, and they now get their main income from selling popcorn, and if you don't make a film that sells popcorn, it's very hard to get it out there.

I love the Marvel movies, but I always feel like we should be a step ahead of the movies. One of the reasons those movies have been so good and so successful is that they've been very good at mining the comics.

'Iron Man' and 'Iron Man 2' are as Jon Favreau films as you can see.

It is good that people are experimenting with cinema. They are trying to do serious and soulful cinema but such films don't stay in theatres for over a week. People ultimately go and watch Salman, Shah Rukh and Amir Khan films.

I root for 'Spawn' and every other comic-book movie. I hope all of them are successful because, any time one fails, it makes it that much harder to get one made.

I have a long love of superhero films, and I'd been saying over and over again to my agents at CAA that I'd like to do one.

There's a lot of cool stuff going on in independent film. But obviously, yeah - all the comic-book-franchise stuff is deeply boring. But these comic-book characters are the pagan pantheon of gods in today's contemporary culture. It's so important to so many people.

The success of 'X-Men' paved the way, I have to presume, for Sony to make Sam Raimi's 'Spider-Man.'

I love the new Marvel films, but I am not crazy about them. It is no longer a sub-genre or a fanboy genre. It has become so mainstream. You cannot say, 'I love superhero movies.' Everyone loves superhero movies now.

The thing about me not doing superhero movies, that's not true at all. Movies are movies. You just go.