I root for all movies, but I especially root for good comic book movies. It's the best, most interesting genre going right now.

My superpower would be telepathy. And I would by necessity need to use it with discretion, not all the time.

There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.

I do think there are always ways to create what seem like insurmountable powers, but then suddenly you find their limitations and that's the nature of comic book storytelling - always has been.

I think the Harry Potter movies are proof that audiences love that stuff. They love the idea of magical objects and they like learning the rules of those objects and what they do.

At the end of the day, a "jump scare" scares the audience for the moment. Slow burn horror ideas scare people forever.

That's to me what always is compelling about villains. I am much more interested in how they think than in what they even do.

Any conqueror in human history has always been ultimately someone who exists purely for the expansion of their own ego, through amounting more.

If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time.

I don't want to be a mind rapist!

Martial arts is the kind of action that does tie in well to the supernatural.

He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.

You know you do not understand yourself if everyone seems to understand you.

Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.

But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred.

I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.

I wasn't concerned about the hardships because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and what I was destined to do.

It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines.

If you are digging for excellent or suggestive renderings, this is among the richer mines.

They that soar too high, often fall hard.

Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well.