Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.

There is a director who should make 'Silver Surfer' - he is mentally committed to it. He's doing another movie now. What's most important to me about this guy, first, is that he's incredible with visuals. But he's also a spiritual guy, a Zen Buddhist. ... Galactus is a force of nature, not a being. That's all I'm saying.

We love Cyclops and as you know, we love James. It's a great team and we'll continue the team, obviously.

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

The skeptics said you can't put on a costume in the middle of New York - which isn't true, because everyone's in a costume here.

You have to believe in the arthouse, if you will - the emotion, the conflict, the who am I, which will always be an unanswered question. If you do it right, you have a smaller drama, and a great movie.

Everything you see that makes you think about the comics, I think you should read into it.

On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.

It makes a world of difference when you start with an amazing script.

No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.