If Spider-Man is your ground level superhero, I wanted to come up with a ground-level villain. I wanted to figure out if I could turn a regular guy into a super-villain.
When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
I really wish I were a superhero.
I don't have a superpower.
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?
My brother is a genius. When we went to Italy, he was on the local television channel as a prodigy, who could solve very sophisticated mathematical equations. He was only seven or eight years old but he could solve mathematical problems for fourteen year olds.
As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'
A photographic memory, to me, is kind of like brainiac, genius type. I don't think I have that.
'X-Men' or 'Avengers!' I want to be a mutant or an Avenger.
Marvel is at its best when we see how an ordinary person has something extraordinary happen to them - whether it's Tony Stark or Bruce Banner or Peter Parker.
The agents of S.M.A.S.H. are the most powerful team in the Marvel universe in terms of muscle power.
My favorite interview question is, 'If you could have a superpower, what would it be?'
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.
My favourite superhero is obviously Batman because he's the sexiest. But I can't imagine myself as Batman.
Today's action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people.
Isn't it amazing how the X-Men always managed to be ahead of everybody's curve no matter how they look at it?
Magneto is classically known for being, like, a caricature of a supervillain who gives a lot of speeches, likes to fly up, teach people a lesson, make society look at themselves.
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.
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 would love to play a superhero. I sometimes walk around thinking, 'If I were a superhero, what would my superpower be?'
If I could have any superpower, I would want hyper-intelligence.
You can't be a superhero or super mom.
