Alan Schaaf Quotes

I wanted to create characters who could do fantastic things but who weren't exactly superheros - characters who exist on sort of a spectrum from super-ability to disability.

Today's action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people.

I'm not really interested in being a superhero. That's not a box I've been trying to check off.

Everything I do with my day is related to Superwoman. I'm either doing conference calls or writing a script or reading a script, editing a video, shooting a video.

I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.

The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'

I don't have a superpower.

You can't be a superhero or super mom.

He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he would look like he was flying, I suppose. It was just natural to draw him like that.

I didn't really know of 'Black Lightning' until I got the script and started to investigate - it wasn't a hero that I grew up with. So I didn't know if his powers were natural or if it was the suit, but those things are, for me, very important. I really like the idea that his powers are his - that whether he has the suit or not, he has them.

The agents of S.M.A.S.H. are the most powerful team in the Marvel universe in terms of muscle power.

I would love to play a superhero. I sometimes walk around thinking, 'If I were a superhero, what would my superpower be?'

I think the very simplest way to show Superman's power is to have him punch someone that's powerful.

Prior to 'Action' and 'Justice League 1,' there was no label 'superhero' for a superpowered being. It's really the emergence of Superman and the Justice League that gets the public comfortable with the idea of people amongst us who have extraordinary power and that they've agreed to be our champions.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and John Cena, in 'The Wall,' are superheroes. They're very grounded, but the amount of training and stuff that soldiers bring to the field, they're like Iron Man.

I really wish I were a superhero.

I really kind of always wondered, if I did Superman, what I would do, and what I would be able to do, because it's a little harder for me, being kind of a realistic guy, to imagine doing a character who almost has no limits to his powers.

'Flying Jatt' is a different and interesting script.

Never seen Jason fly before," Percy grumbled. "He looks like a blond Superman

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Ideas and thoughts and creativity is more of who I am than football.