My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.

I thought that the grounded-ish nature of the first Iron Man and where I think the success of it was based was I think people got excited that this was a technologically possible occurrence; and didn't Obama order an Iron Man?

I don't want to be so confident in myself.

You have to let go of the things that are darling to you. You have to take the focus off yourself and put it on the shape of the scene and the intention of what everyone else needs.

I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.

I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It's convenient to imagine that there's a few people controlling everything, that way it's manageable and small. But that's not life, life is messy.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.