Vikramaditya Motwane Quotes

I've always wanted to be an action figure.

I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.

As a kid, you just like anything fanciful that you're into, but as an adult, I really love that kind of place where the super hero mythos meets life, where it has that human story; that's what I think I was really drawn to when I started getting into the X-Men.

Comic-book movies are mythology, in a way, and there are a lot more parallels in them with what's going on in the real world than people want to discuss.

One of the things I've always loved about genre, comic books, science fiction and fantasy is that there's a certain level of playfulness to them, and pure imagination and creativity.

I grew up watching sci-fi and Justice League and all those kinds of things.

I've always been fascinated by mythology or, in modern parlance, by X-Men or vampires.

I love a great myth. I love a superhero origin story.

To me, superhero movies are like Greek myth.

I don't think you ever outgrow your love for things that are bigger than life and more colorful than the average life. And somehow I feel that these comic book stories are like fairy tales for older people, because they have the same qualities.

I've always been positive about superheroes.

'Justice League' takes place in the past, and Aquaman has a lot more to prove. He's just starting out. The perception is already beginning, and all these super humans are just showing up, and here's Aquaman. The perception is, 'What's next? Now we've got a guy talking to fish. What can be next?'

He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.

I've never really been a big sci-fi guy or a big comic book guy.

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.

Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so to be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it. It's all good.

Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games.

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

I was never one of the cool kids who read '2000 AD.'

We were just emerging from the Depression. Superman started in 1938. Batman started in 1939. So, we were just recovering.

Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.

If I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow.

I'm a big fan of superheroes and fantasy and sci-fi. I have been since I was a child.

I feel, since 2001, this huge need for Americans to have superheroes on the screen. This idea that a super-being will protect you. That this being can go above the law but, at the end of the day, would be a good force and defeat the evil. This idea that this half-god exists. This need in the subconscious of America to find these gods.