Christopher Priest Quotes

I actually put Jubilee in 'Squirrel Girl.' I made it a priority.

Venom is such a great character, it will be fun to see who he tangles with along the way.

The Joker is my favorite villain of all time.

I liked The Trickster because he was The Flash's Joker. I liked Solomon Grundy, too.

As much as I love elements of Spider-Man's past, I don't really want to go back in and retell the Gwen Stacy and Green Goblin story in animation just so I can do my take on it. I don't want to redo the first 'Spider Slayer' story.

I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.

When I go to Batman movies, I always think, 'Man, I would like to be a bad guy in a Batman movie.' especially as they got darker when they go to the Christian Bale era.

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

I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.

Over at Marvel, I have a five-part series coming out very soon. The books or chapters will appear weekly. It's called '5 Ronin' and features some iconic Marvel heroes as you've never seen them.

I was very attracted to doing 'The Wolverine' in Japan because that's my favorite chapter in the story of Wolverine. But I'm not a superhero guy.

When I was younger, I used to love Tim Burton's 'Batman.' I was, like, 15, and even then, I was aware, 'This is really the Joker's film.' It's like, the Joker just takes over, and Batman, you really don't learn too much about him.

I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.

I just remember how cool and exciting and crazy it seemed when Marvel was giving this new 'Ultimate Spider-Man' title to this crime writer Brian Michael Bendis who had never really done any superhero stuff before.

I loved the idea of Spider-Man as a kid, and I loved the Todd MacFarlane run in the 1990s, and the first Raimi movies were released when I was in film school. Those were big.

What's interesting about 'The Brave and Bold #85' is it's a book in which I re-created, or created, Green Arrow.

In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.

A lot of people when I walk into meetings are like, 'Come on, let's talk more about 'X-Men.' What's it like to be Havok?' It certainly has been opening a lot of doors.

I think our Batman had to be fun, light-hearted, funny, tongue-in-cheek... and I think that made kind of an homage to those earlier comic books, where Batman always had a quip or something.

I'd love to do a Marvel movie.

I feel like I've been playing Spider-Man my whole life. He's a character I've been pretending to be in my bedroom since I was a kid - so I've been preparing for this forever, I think.

Catwoman is Batman's one true love. She's tremendously popular with women because she's both a heroine and a villainess.

It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.

'Ghost Rider' definitely has an appeal that's far beyond comics.

Every significant book at Marvel had its key antagonist. 'The Fantastic Four' had Doctor Doom; 'Spider-Man' had Doc Ock, among others; Thor had Loki, if not Surtur. Without Magneto, the X-Men had nobody.