Quotes from Josh Trank

I am very sensitive about characters being annoying in movies.

I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing.

I'm a big, big movie fan; really, I've seen everything. I really mean that, too.

I was made fun of by a lot of other kids in such a way that I didn't feel like I was human.

I knew that this was going to be questioned and it was going to come under skepticism as to why I left 'Star Wars'.

There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.

Most superheroes are painted with a specific moral objective that makes them who they are. And that moral objective influences everything they do, so there's an expectation for what you're going to see out of a certain character.

I had a condition called gynecomastia - I had really big man-boobs, and I got a surgery for it.

I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there's no such thing as rules.

People are religious about comics the way people are religious about the Bible.

When I was in middle school and high school, I was over 100 pounds overweight.

I think maybe there's a part of me that needs adversity from the rest of the world in order to feel motivated to want to prove people wrong. I need people to be like, 'What is this weirdo doing?'

In this day and age, people have come to expect that artists are going to give everybody information on Twitter about what they're doing, but not every artist is like that. I'm not really like that.

'Fast Times At Ridgemont High' is one of my favorite movies; it's a film that's a human comedy, it's a drama, and the characters all, in a way, fit the teenage archetypes, but they don't become stereotypes because each of the actors brought their own presence and their own personality to the screen.

We live in a time where there's a required instant gratification from audiences. That's a fun challenge in terms of putting together this teaser, picking and choosing how much you're actually giving away.

I ended up losing weight and going through a lot of stuff, but yeah, that is so much of my life and my past. I'm glad that I went through that because I don't think I would be where I am now if I hadn't gone through it. It spills over in most of my love for movies and being alone.

I have a great relationship with everyone at Lucasfilm and with Kiri Hart.

You can't have bad without good. You can't have right without wrong. You can't have fantastic without mundane. You need to experience all that to really earn the title of the film, 'Fantastic Four.'

You can't just keep telling a story the same way over and over again. And I think it only helps the world to be more honest with young kids, to show them the world that they go walk outside and see.

By the way, I have had zero press training.

In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,' the star was the writing and the storytelling, and the characters and the twists and the cleverness in the setup and payoff and execution.

To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.

I love how 'Misfits' is a drama-comedy.

I feel like we're going to see a lot more movies that mix documentary style with fiction, more along the lines of 'District 9.'