Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.

I have had a dream my whole life... and it was not this good.

There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story.

I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part of a, like, secret society or pickup basketball game. As far as I'm concerned, pick-up basketball games are secret societies. They confuse me. I've never been a networker or I've never been very social.

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.

There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.

I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back.