Quotes About Creation

I had worked on Thanos, created him back even before I started working at Marvel.

Whenever I come back to Marvel, it's to do a Thanos story for one reason or another.

There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.

To make a masterpiece would be my life's dream.

I hope to record the perfect album, my masterpiece, before I die.

Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.

Quality isn't about where the money came from or which company gets to put their name on the thing. What matters is who made the movie and why they made it.

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

I think the thing that is meaningful is when I can tell that someone's been affected by the movie or by anything I made.

My job is to make meaning. To make meaning in a meaningless world.

I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.

I just write mechanical things.

I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands.

You can create some soul out of something that's electronic or mechanical.

As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.

To create is to resist; to resist is to create.

Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.

When I was at BMW and Aston Martin, I realized how difficult and how many resources it takes to create a car - let alone a car company.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response is, 'Well, you know, it's possible to believe in evolution and believe in God.' Yes, and it's possible to believe in Spiderman and believe in God, but that doesn't prove Spiderman is true.

When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before.

When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.

We're in the doing business, or acting business and creating business. We're not in the results business, so we don't have any control over what the result is. My reward comes in the doing of it.