When you see the results, you forget the pain.

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books.

If you don't have your conviction you have to put your money where your mouth is.

On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.

When you choose a villain, you need something visually exciting. And when you have someone like Jamie Foxx... you want to make sure the guy with the mask and the guy without the mask are delivering two different performances.

The skeptics said you can't put on a costume in the middle of New York - which isn't true, because everyone's in a costume here.