Latest Stan Lee Quotes from Interviews

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• Once you get the script, you then hope you can get the director that you want. Then you hope he can get the cast he wants. Again, you can go quickly or there can be a million stumbling blocks. There's just no way to know.

  Stan Lee

  Block, Directors, Want

  Source: www.ign.com

• Usually, the biggest hang-up is the script. You could have a script done in six months that you love, or it could be like The Fantastic Four it's been almost 10 years.

  Stan Lee

  Years, Months, Six

  Source: www.ign.com

• I want to get that same feeling that everybody logging on to our website is sharing a little bit of an inside joke, and the rest of the world is oblivious to it although I want to have most of the world.

  Stan Lee

  Feelings, World, Want

  Source: www.ign.com

• The main thing I want to do, is to make our website the most entertaining website there is on the Internet. I want it to be the premiere site for entertainment, for communication, and for fun.

  Stan Lee

  Fun, Communication, Entertainment

  Source: www.ign.com

• I don't know where the hell I'll be in 5 years. Maybe I'll be producing movies maybe I'll be on a corner selling apples. I don't know, but I'm having a hell of a lot of fun.

  Stan Lee

  Fun, Years, Apples

  Source: www.ign.com

• I think I've got 12... Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman, Plastic-Man, Green Lantern, Sandman, The Justice League, The Atom Legion of Superheroes and Teen Titans.... Just about all of their top titles.

  Stan Lee

  Men, Thinking, League

  Source: www.ign.com

• The way I'm doing it is I'm trying to think to myself, "Okay, I have the name Superman, and he's going to be a guy that deserves the name 'Superman.' I'm trying to forget about Krypton, about The Daily Planet what would I do if I was thinking it up?" I can do it any way at all..I can make him an Eskimo midget who's toothless and blind... I can do anything. It's difficult .

  Stan Lee

  Thinking, Names, Krypton

  Source: www.ign.com

• The purpose of this is not show that I can do it better, because I think Superman is perfect. The original creation of Superman nobody could have done that better and I think Batman is pretty much a perfect character... The same with all of them. I'm just going to try to find a way to say, "If that wasn't the original idea, what would be another way to do it that would be more in my style?".

  Stan Lee

  Character, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.ign.com

• I think it's just the challenge. It's not that all my life I've wanted to do characters [in Marvel] , because I never particularly thought about it, but the challenge of saying, "How could they be done differently that may be more absorbing or more effective?"

  Stan Lee

  Character, Thinking, Challenges

  Source: www.ign.com

• I'd like to own Intel... I'd like to own Microsoft... I'd love to have Warner Bros in my hip pocket.

  Stan Lee

  Pockets, Microsoft, Hips

  Source: www.ign.com

• I couldn't say no when I received that offer [to re-invent the DC characters]... How can any writer say no to the opportunity of redoing every one of DC's top superheroes?

  Stan Lee

  Character, Opportunity, Superhero

  Source: www.ign.com

• We have enough to do just trying to make our company what we want it to be. As far as whether I would like to own Marvel, sure, I'd like to own Marvel.

  Stan Lee

  Trying, Want, Enough

  Source: www.ign.com

• I'm the Chairman Emeritus, and according to my contract I am supposed to devote 10% of my time to working for Marvel... and the rest of my time, I can do anything that I wish.

  Stan Lee

  Wish, Contracts, Chairman

  Source: www.ign.com

• I couldn't afford [buying Marvel]. I hope I have enough money for dinner tonight!

  Stan Lee

  Tonight, Dinner, Buying

  Source: www.ign.com

• You always exaggerate things in a movie. If it makes a good visual and it excites the kids that's good.

  Stan Lee

  Kids, Visuals, Ifs

  Source: www.ign.com

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

  Stan Lee

  Done, Way

  Source: www.ign.com

• It is impossible to do a movie exactly the way a comic book is written and drawn, just as it's impossible to do a movie exactly like a novel or exactly like anything else. When you go to different forms of media, you have to adapt.

  Stan Lee

  Book, Media, Way

  Source: www.ign.com

• I always figure I'm not unique, and something that would please me hopefully would please a lot of other people that have the same tastes that I do.

  Stan Lee

  Unique, Please Me, People

  Source: www.ign.com

• I'm practically an actor. Even when you do an interview, it's like you're performing a little bit, so yeah, I'm enjoying it, it's fun.

  Stan Lee

  Fun, Interviews, Actors

  Source: www.ign.com

• Nobody likes to be preached to.

  Stan Lee

  Likes

  Source: www.ign.com

• I remember when I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I thought Arthur Conan Doyle was one of the greatest writers, because I felt I knew Sherlock Holmes. He existed to me. When I went to England the first thing I did was go to Baker Street to look for his house. I think you've got to try to make all of your characters as empathetic and realistic as possible.

  Stan Lee

  Character, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.ign.com

• One of the keys is, and it may sound funny, talking about characters with super powers, but one of the keys is to make your characters as realistic and believable as possible. Even if they have super powers, you say to yourself, "Well, if somebody had a super power like this, what would his life be like? Wouldn't he still maybe have to go to the dentist or wouldn't he have to worry about making a living? What about his love life?" You've got to make characters that your reader can believe exists or might exist.

  Stan Lee

  Believe, Character, Love Life

  Source: www.ign.com

• Everybody learns differently and everybody gets to a certain point from a different direction.

  Stan Lee

  Different, Certain, Different Directions

  Source: www.ign.com

• The more you read, the better you're going to become as a storyteller.

  Stan Lee

  Storyteller

  Source: www.ign.com

• I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own mind.

  Stan Lee

  Thinking, Mind, Stories

  Source: www.ign.com