When you combine the great stories from the comics with the action and visual excitement of the movies, it doesn't get any better!

No one has a perfect life. Everybody has something that he wishes was not the way it is.

I think people have always loved things that are bigger than life, things that are imaginative.

If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it. How could anybody say that this wouldn't be as worthwhile an artform as anything on earth?

I don't expect every movie to be done exactly the way I would have done it.

I'm sort of a pressure writer. If somebody says, "Stan, write something," and I have to have it by tomorrow morning, I'll just sit down and I'll write it. It always seems to come to me. But I'm better doing a rushed job because if it isn't something that's due quickly, I won't work on it until it becomes almost an emergency and then I'll do it.

You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?