William Moseley Quotes

The comic book industry has turned into the wellspring for all of these movies that are all based on the comic books.

The '80s convergence of comics' new adult sensibility with the movies' advancing technology was bound to catch the attention of even slow-on-the-uptake Hollywood, and this particularly was true when 'Watchmen' and 'The Dark Knight Returns' became phenomena.

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

I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.

It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?

I actually feel like comic book movies need to be better than your average movie.

I love other movies that have been made since, but I think more than any comic book movie, 'Superman' just totally seemed to capture superheroes in ways that others have not.

Being a hardcore old-school comic book lover, it took me a while to accept the need for comic book movies.

'Avengers' was a great comic-book movie. 'The Dark Knight Rises' is a great epic.

I like movies with superheroes - one of my favorite movies of all time was 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.'

One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.

I think about it, and I realize there's been some version of a Batman or Spiderman or Superman franchise since I was a boy, since before I was a boy.

I look at the Christian Bale movies, the 'Batman' films, and that shows you that superhero movies don't just have to be about men in tights.

In this day and age, where you have a lot of comic book movies made every day, and most of them are really good boys, it's important to have a couple bad boys out there, too.

A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'

I do like comic book movies, but only the ones that I read as a kid.

If I get stuck doing comic-book films for the rest of my life, I'll be really happy.

One of DC's strengths is our archive of storylines ranging from 'Watchmen' to 'Arkham Asylum' to 'Sandman.'

I've seen all the Batman movies in the theater opening weekend. I was a big Batman fan, definitely.

If you look at Stan Lee and the Marvel comics, yes, there's a lot of awesome, serious and dramatic action that takes place.

I like the superhero comic books, and I like to see what the actors do creatively with the characters and how they bring these superheroes to life in the movies.

I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best.

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

You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.

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.