Ann Nocenti Quotes

I don't have an endgame. My game is to take on any bad guys I see out there. And do the best I can until they put me under the carpet.

I don't want to be like Spider-man or Batman, the do-gooder kind of thing.

No one is really playing the good guy, but if they want to play the bad guy, I'm ready to play the super hero and take these guys out.

There is no one who is more conflicted in the Marvel Universe, in my opinion, than Matthew Murdock. Is he his father's son, or is he the son of his father? Is he someone who is going to solve the world's problems in a court room, or is he someone who is going to solve the world's problems with his fist?

I don't want The Flash to become a vigilante. I don't want him to abuse the power.

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time to time. Bruce keeps Batman human.

We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.

I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.

Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.

The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

Shoot the bad guys and I'll gladly sing a tune for you.

Sometimes I understand how Bruce Wayne feels. When you take down a terrorist or something, there's always six guys to take their place. Everyone is Hydra. But you still have to do it.

Daredevil's religion makes him unique. He's a vigilante, but he's also a lawyer - and all the while, he believes only God is capable of bringing people to justice.

I think Batman is a great character in that he has a lot of internalization, and his heroics come from a dark place.

I feel like me and Batman have a lot in common. Out on the basketball court, I'm a vigilante.

To me, Punisher is pretty black and white. He's very simple, and at the same time, he's very complex. I don't know why I think I understand the guy, but I feel I do.

Batman. I like the idea that if I had enough money, time, and vengeance, I could become him.

Batman's got this whole cloaked 'man of mystery' thing around him and represents a wish fulfillment. He's more driven than Superman yet is also very human.

Beat up 10 guys, win the girl, and yet you are supposed to be a normal human being. I don't mind doing that as a superhero but not as a real person!

If society is a ship, it appears to many to be firmly at anchor in moral waters. Perhaps this isn't so.

'Luke Cage' is about a reluctant superhero who lives in the shadows in Harlem. He has to decide if he's going to step up and fight for the heart of the city and defend the people against Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes, my character, who kinda wants to keep everything in order and intact. I'm the criminal element in the story.

I think that we want to believe in Superman.

I don't believe that there are two sides to a story when it's a matter of right versus wrong. It just doesn't work that way.