Joel Silver Quotes

I grew up watching Wonder Woman; I grew up watching Batman. I grew up watching George Reeves as Superman.

It's just that... working on 'Green Lantern,' I saw how difficult it is to make that concept palatable, and how confused it all can be when you don't really know exactly where you're going with it or you don't really know how to access that world properly - that world comic book fans have been accessing for decades and falling in love with.

One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.

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

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

There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.

I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!

Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman and was one of the first female superheroes. It gives me more of an encouragement that we can be strong and can do whatever a guy can do.

It seems like they make every comic book into a film. 'Watchmen' is my favorite of all time.

Wonder Woman is a lot of fun to draw.

I love 'Batman.' I love the Adam West 'Batman.' I love the animated 'Batman.' The character of Batman can encompass any interpretation, which is what makes that character so brilliant and why it's survived so many different media.

I'm passionate about fantasy movies. I'm passionate about comic book movies. I'm passionate about superheroes. And movies about vengeance. And all of that - the stuff that I grew up reading.

It's always been a dream for me to play a comic book character.

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

I'm completely obsessed with the film versions of 'Superman'.

One of the great things about the 'Iron Man' franchise is that they employ fascinating actors who don't necessarily do action movies. Before 'Iron Man' you didn't associate Robert Downey, Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow with those kinds of films. There's an emphasis on repartee and wit.

I thought 'Thor' would just be fun.

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.

Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.

I can say pretty confidently that I am not the right guy to do a superhero movie, just because I was not a comic book kid. I don't know that mythology, and I don't have it ingrained in me in the way that a lot of these other directors do.

I read 'Scarlett' recently, and that was a killer comic book. The 'Black Widow' was pretty rockin'. There is a big list of killer chicks that are just rockin'.

I am a huge 'Wonder Woman' fan - I had 'Wonder Woman' Underoos and a towel that I saved from when I was a little girl that is so faded, if that tells you anything.

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 believe that in the future there will be a movie called 'Deadpool vs. Wolverine'.

I'd love to play Wonder Woman.