Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men

I have a desperate longing to have a desperate longing

You either believe women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.

The Hulk is like a haiku; you've got to find just the right words. I think, and I hope, we did that with The Avengers.

I set out in television with one simple goal: to purchase a Russian bride. Didn't work out. Immigration stuff - it's complicated.

My mother really was an extraordinary, inspirational, tough, cool, sexy, funny woman and that's the kind of woman I've always surrounded myself with. It's my friends, particularly my wife, who is not only smarter than and stronger than I am but, occasionally taller too. I think it all goes back to my mother. My father and my stepfather prized whit and resolve in the women they were with above all things. And they were among the rare men who understood that recognising somebody else's power does not diminish your own.