Quotes About Inspiration

Every son needs his father to be a hero and my father is like a superhero!

When I was a kid, my favorite superhero was Robin Hood.

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

I love a great myth. I love a superhero origin story.

The reason I fell in love with Buffy was because of the ambiguity, because she was a superhero and a hot mess. I hadn't seen anything like her on TV - ever.

I think if I could be any superhero, it'd probably be my mom... but I don't think I'd look too good in high heels, so it's not gonna happen.

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.

In my house, my mother is my superhero.

My first influences were superhero artists.

I guess my journey with comics began with stuff like Spider-Man and Batman. I started off with mainstream superhero stuff, which I've never abandoned.

I love the idea of writing these huge, bombastic characters; I'll stay in the superhero world as long as I can.

When I first dropped into L.A., I wanted to be a superhero!

'Shadow Hero' was my first superhero story. I don't know why it took so long.

As far as superhero stories, what's appealing is of course that aspect of wish fulfillment. I mean, you start out reading them as a kid, and a couple things jump out at you - there are heroes out there, and you wish you could run into a phone booth and change your life, or be like Peter Parker and put on a mask and become a hero.

I thought, 'Oh, this is great,' because maybe someone who does look like me will watch 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.

If I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow.

I can't really write anything without knowing the ending. I don't know how people do that. Even with my superhero stuff, I have to know at least where I want to take the characters and what the ending of my story with them will be. I just can't structure stories or character arcs and stuff without knowing the endpoint.

I always wanted to do some sort of action film - even a superhero movie - and when 'Lucy' came out, I was like, 'That's what I want to do.'

I loved going to superhero films growing up - you come home, and you pretend to be those people, and it ends up informing much of what you aspire to be. And that's what I will say is important about the genre.

I want to be in a Marvel movie. I want to be a superhero.

I had no confusion about making a superhero film. From the very day one, I knew I will make a movie of this genre which will have an Indian superhero. I never wanted to copy my superhero from any of the Hollywood ones.

People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.

I would really love to play a superhero. That is definitely up there on my list. Captain Marvel especially. That would be so cool.

A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism.