Comic Book Film Quotes

#1. It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?

Richard Donner

#2. I do everything I watch, whether it's like a big comic book film that I've done or something very serious and raw.I do have that initial feeling like I'm the worst, this is awful, my work is - I've let everybody down. I definitely have that.

Eva Mendes

#3. My main point about films is that I don't like the adaptation process, and I particularly don't like the modern way of comic book-film adaptations, where, essentially, the central characters are just franchises that can be worked endlessly to no apparent point.

Alan Moore

#4. He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.

Zack Snyder

#5. Like my boy tells me; if it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, by golly, it is a rat.

Terrell Owens

#6. And Odin should have known from the first that perfect Order does not bend; it simply stands until it breaks, which is why it rarely survives for any meaningful length of time.

Joanne Harris

#7. Everything is carefully designed to make people crave the food that looks far more delicious on the walls than on the tables.

John Grisham

#8. The last time I was this confused I was watching a Fassbinder film.

Ken O'Neill

#9. I think the two jobs I dreamed of doing as a teenager were comic book artist and record cover illustrator. Maybe film director was in the mix as well, but that seemed to be an impossible mountain to climb.

Dave McKean

#10. This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. Yeah. They used to bang, and people tend to blab after a bang."
"I'll be sure to guard my tongue."
"It's usually tired from all the work during the bang," she pointed out, and made him laugh.
"True enough.

J.D. Robb

#12. I always love to do my own stunts when they let me, right?

Lucas Till

#13. For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught
To be contented with the least.

William Davenant

#14. No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.

Donal Logue

#15. In a sense, comic books are frozen movies. If you look at a comic book, you are generally seeing the storyboard for a film. The great advantage of comic books, over the years, has been that, if they are frozen movies, they are not limited by budget. They are only limited by imagination.

Michael Uslan

#16. Listen to your conscience. You have to live with yourself for the rest of your life.

Frank Sonnenberg

#17. It seems like they make every comic book into a film. 'Watchmen' is my favorite of all time.

William Moseley

#18. Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered ...

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#19. Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like a comic book but when you start making it, for some reason the film gets very serious.

Dagur Kari

#20. You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.

Ben Carson

#21. Fear screams; faith whispers!

Evinda Lepins

#22. Won't hurt you." "Says the man who turns into a freaking lion." "Hey, don't act like you're so surprised. I told you I did." "But I didn't think you meant it," she said with a fling of her

Eve Langlais

#23. Since social networks gained popularity extremely rapidly, there had been a debate as to whether social media was a fad. There are countless pieces of evidence now proving the contrary, among them the explosion in Twitter growth and Facebook's public listing.

Ryan Holmes

#24. As much as I'm enjoying stuff out here in Hollywood, I will always think of myself as a comic-book writer who does film and television, not a film and TV writer who occasionally does comics.

Brian K. Vaughan

#25. Yes, the Bechdel Test. It's named for Allison Bechdel, who is a comic book creator. The test is, are there two named women in the film? Do they talk to each other? And is it about something other than a man? I actually think the Bechdel Test is a little advanced for us sometimes.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#26. Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.

Marie-Louise Von Franz

#27. I don't subscribe to the school of thought that as a feature film producer I shouldn't dabble in television, web content, or even comic books ...

Adi Shankar

#28. In order to find out who you are, you will, at some point, have to feel really isolated, left out, different.

Jenna Marbles

#29. I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

Harrison Ford