Quotes from Paul Dini

Kids love the Hulk, but they're not really sure: 'Is he a monster or is he a hero?'

Mr. Freeze is motivated by different things. He doesn't really have that much of an axe to grind with Batman. Batman is an irritation and an impediment to him, not an enemy that he hates. He doesn't have the hatred that the Joker has for Batman.

There's a different energy to Spider-Man than there is to Batman.

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.

As cool as it is to be Spider-Man at times, there's also a price to pay for that - and he has to learn to balance things out.

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

There's a little bit of Sid and Nancy to the Joker and Harley look, which I always felt would not be a bad look if they were in a live-action movie.

Batman is dark and moody and spooky and, in some cases, methodical.

In every story I've written with Batman, there's an element of justice - you never want to have the story end on a defeatist or a cynical note.

Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It's the only place they feel comfortable. It's the only time they feel like they're being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.

Riddler: You want to tell me who you killed and why? Catwoman: We didn't kill anyone Poisson Ivy: Well, not yesterday

There's so much going on here, and out there, and places we don't even know about. Everything's so scary and uncertain. We never know when fate will shake it all up. That's pretty deep. You gotta wonder how we'll ever make it through. I guess we can fall back on what's gotten us this far. A positive attitude and lots of denial?

Clean this place out. I want hard drives, gadgets, papers, circuit boards, everything. Grab the pencil sharpener if it looks interesting.

Right now Jabba just said "Boska," and when the boss says boska, we boska.

Besides, when it came to being colorful...we invisible kids learned to carry our colors on the inside

there would always be an endless supply of potential hench-wenches to choose from.

As long as it doesn't require special shoes, human sacrifice, or extra funding, you can do almost anything, as long as you let me know about it.

End? You don't mean like, dead end?

Yeah, that was how they rolled in Gotham City, the world's biggest cult, where everyone was brainwashed to worship Batman and hate anybody he hated. Anyone who didn't was declared criminal or crazy and ended up in Iron Heights or Arkham Asylum while Batman flitted around town, cosplaying and ego-tripping.

the tendency to believe something despite there being either evidence to the contrary, or no evidence at all.

Gotham City isn't like anywhere else," Dr. Leland said with a faint, sad smile. "People who come here from other, more conventional cities find it hard to understand our brand of normal.

Gotham City made criminals via its own special recipe—one part felony, one part cosplay—

who was a lot more than just the sum of their weaknesses.

The subterranean homesick clown