Antony Johnston Quotes

We don't have a superhero culture. Comic books and superheroes are part of American culture. We have 'Amar Chitrakatha,' etc.

What other people are adapting from the comics medium, I watch with as much interest as I do any other movies. Because I'm a fan, and I want to see what other people are doing in the world.

I think, for the most part, comics have devolved into fantasy for the sake of fantasy.

Though to the average person that you'll meet on an airplane, if you tell them you draw comics, they'll still have sort of the same response - not like that's seeped into the culture at large, that comics are not just for kids.

Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.

I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize.

I've never been a superhero-comic fan exactly.

I look at the Marvel movies and the DC movies and various creators' creations, and I think, you know, that's really pretty cool.

Comic books have gone mainstream. The audience is there.

People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.

Look, there's no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years, and for someone like me who's always tried to make a living at it, it's been great, I'm very grateful for it. But at the same time, it's not a subculture-y thing anymore; it's something that's in the New York Times and the New Yorker.

I don't think that people are necessarily going to films simply because they were adapted from comics, though I could be wrong. Comics aren't really misunderstood either, they've just been mostly silly for the past century, and those genre-centered stories have found their way into the movie theaters over the past couple of decades because a generation who grew up reading them has, well, grown up.

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

I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.

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 am someone who, from a very young age, was a huge fan of DC Comics.

My book is very wild. But you know during the period of BATMAN, that there were thousands of Batman and Robin costumes sold and these weren't just for kids.

I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job.

In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.

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.

The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

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

It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.