But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.

A man without hope is a man without fear.

Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy.

Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

When you got a condition, it's bad to forget your medicine.

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for.

'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

An infinity with God has always been a circle, not a straight line past all your mistakes.

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

If people don’t have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is just a matter of opinion.

I love color - I'm not a beige kind of girl

Sing like nobody can hear you, dance like nobody can see you, and love like you've never been hurt.

Some people, when they're called before the police, like nothing better than to spill everything, fact and fiction alike, hoping to create a good impression.

It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.

If only religious leaders could be trusted, then maybe there wouldn't be so many problems. They have perverted any truth that the Bible may have.

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.

To a certain extent. I'm a fan of rehearsal on the day [of the shoot], more than getting together a week beforehand.