Stan Lee Quotes

Working with people you adore and love. There's just a sense, all the way through all of the movies [Planet of Apes], that you're very rarely in a position where you have great material that you're passionate about and a big audience who love it, and the detail and nuance, and the exquisiteness of the fantastic actors and director with great writing.

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

The hunger for knowing is what excites me. I get to geek out about editing, be on set, give notes to writers - I love it all.

I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list.

I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and think like a filmmaker as I'm buzzing about the world and then see an opportunity to make a film, and then make it happen.

I'd work with Danny Boyle every day of the week. No matter what he was doing I would do that.

I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that.

When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this intense pleasure you get from working with all these really talented people, and pooling the efforts towards a common goal. I like all the aspects of film-making.

I like to do things that are about relationships, work with quality people, and tell a different kind of story.

That's what I've always wanted to do - work with my favorite writers and make something from scratch with them that we can feel like didn't exist before we came in the room.

Allan Cubitt has written exceptional material, and I feel very privileged to be working with him and the very talented cast.

All of the characters at Marvel were my ideas, but the ideas meant nothing unless I had somebody who could illustrate it.

That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world.

I want to be around people that are just as enthusiastic about the process and storytelling as I am.

'Monsters of God' isn't just a series close to my heart; it is my heart, and I am very much looking forward to working with my fantastic team in New Mexico to create a top-notch series.

One of the things I really love about my job is enthusiasm.

For me, movie-making is more than making a 'hit' film. It's about working with a team of people I really respect and doing something that gives me satisfaction.

I'm overwhelmed by and in awe of the work that I do. I adore my work. I live to work.

What I really care about is writing... Some people feel about touring the way I feel about writing, which is, 'Whoa, I can't believe I get to do this as a job.'

You are carving out a story. You and your colleagues are trying to make something that is bigger than yourself. Although it can be a scary experience because you're putting your work out on the line, it's also incredibly rewarding because a lot of it comes from you.

I just love what I do. I'm not worried about any burnout.

What's fun about the story development at Pixar is it's a journey. You don't just write a script and then that's the movie you make. It's just constant evolution and being open to that and that collaboration with the voice actors and with the artists and animators at Pixar.

I love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced.

I want to keep working with people that care about what they're doing. It seems obvious, but it's not. It's sometimes hard to keep on that track.

The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most scientists above the technician-troll level, computer freaks, and the righteous dope-dealers of California.