Stan Lee

"They are working on The Fantastic Four, The Silver Surfer, Iron Man, Dr. Strange, The Hulk— theyre doing a sequel to Spider-Man, a sequel to X-Men, and probably a third sequel to Blade. They still havent gotten around to Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.— they have to do the Ghost Rider."

"What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world. Now, think about this. You could walk across the street against a traffic light and get a summons for jaywalking, but you could walk up to a police officer and say "I want to rule the world," and theres nothing he can do about it, that is not a crime. Anybody can want to rule the world. So, even though he was the Fantastic Fours greatest menace, in my mind, he was never a criminal!"

"Our faiths are similar — its merely our religions that may differ. I have faith in the inherent goodness of man and Im sure you feel the same. ... I have the greatest respect for any discipline that preaches kindness and charity and love for ones fellow man. Most important of all, to me — "Do unto others as youd have them do unto you" is the greatest phrase ever written. If everyone followed that creed, this world would be a paradise."

"To me you can wrap all of Judaism up in one sentence, and that is, Do not do unto others... All I tried to do in my stories was show that theres some innate goodness in the human condition. And theres always going to be evil; we should always be fighting evil."

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"Another definition of a hero is someone who is concerned about other peoples well-being, and will go out of his or her way to help them -- even if there is no chance of a reward. That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero."

"[M]ost writers — and I think it’s an unfortunate thing — they try to write something that they think a certain audience might enjoy. I’ve never been able to do that, because I can’t put myself in the mind of other people. I only know what I enjoy. So every time I’ve written a story, I’ve always tried to write the sort of story that I, myself would enjoy reading, a story that would interest me while I’m writing it as I’m waiting to find out what happens next. And I can’t know what other people think, but I can know what I think, and I feel. I’m not that unusual. If there’s a type of story I like, there must be lots of people who like the same type of stories. Therefore, I have always written to please myself, not to please a certain type of audience, because you can’t know the audience as well as you know yourself."

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"As comics writers we had to have villains in our stories. And once World War II started, the Nazis gave us the greatest villains in the world to fight against. It was a slam dunk."

"We tried to make our characters as human and empathetic as possible. Instead of merely emphasizing their super feats, we attempted to make their personal life and personal problems as realistic and as interesting as possible. We wanted to make them seem like real people whom the reader would like to spend time with and want to know better."

"When my father died, no one from Marvel or Disney reached out to me. From day one, they have commoditized my fathers work and never shown him or his legacy any respect or decency. In the end, no one could have treated my father worse than Marvel and Disneys executives."

"[F]or me, superheroes will always spark the imagination of people around the world regardless of their background, because I think that people are always looking for something that represents the ideal person or the ideal situation. Almost all of us have loved fairy tales when we were young. Just remember stories of giants and witches and wizards and monsters and things that were so colorful and bigger than life. But then, you get a little older and you’re too old to read fairy tales. But you never outgrow your love of that type of story. And if you think about it, superheroes stories today are really like fairy tales for grown-ups. The characters are bigger than life, just like in fairy tales. They have the same type of superpowers: some can fly, some are extra-strong, some can be invisible. It gives the viewer and the reader a chance to relive the excitement he or she had when they were young. They’re really reading fairy tales for grown-ups when they read or when they see superhero stories today, and that’s why I love them so."