[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait.

Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you.

The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside.

One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another's worlds, preventing gridlock.

When a girl says she likes you as a friend, what she means is: "Rather than have sex with you, I would prefer to lose you as a friend."

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.