There is an expectation with a superhero film that there is spectacle and action but there also has to be heart. Striking that balance is really important.

At least you used to know 'there's the villain, there's the good guy', but today there are more shades of grey.

Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city.

People tend to think about God more when the clock starts to wind down.

You think that it must be great to be Superman but it's also hard to be Superman, especially when growing up.

It's rare that I'm working on a movie and that's the case. My goal is the same, ultimately at a certain point you give it to the director and their vision. You're there to support that vision.

I was also an Action Comic fan when I was a young kid and those comic books affected me and Superman is - he's the one. He's the first one. He's the one. He's the one everybody is always compared to.

I think that Superman is the pinnacle of the DC Universe. Our feeling always was that you need to get Superman right. That was also our goal. We didn't want to ignore that this universe exists.

The day the nation voted on whether I’d live or die, I woke up with a headache.

No one is exempt from the call to find common ground.

I continue to believe when I said in Hanover, that the E.U. remains one of the world's great political and economic achievements, and that those achievements should not be taken for granted.

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides

How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to.

We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.

The goal of science is to understand the fundamental reality and the goal of technology is to change that reality.

Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.

I look him in the eye. "I will always love you.

As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.