"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."
Stan Lee was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business called Timely Comics, which later became Marvel Comics. He was Marvel's primary creative leader for two decades, expanding it from a small publishing house division to a multimedia corporation that dominated the comics and film industries.
"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!"
Stan Lee"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."
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."
Stan Lee"WITH GREAT POWER THERE MUST ALSO COME----------GREAT RESPONSIBILITY!"
Stan Lee"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."
Stan Lee"To me, the human aspect of superheroes has always been, perhaps, the most important part. By that, I mean: Okay, we assume your superhero might be extra-strong, or might be able to fly or run as fast as a comet. But unless you care about the superhero’s personal life, you’re just reading a shallow story. Just because a person has a superpower doesn’t mean he might not have the same personal problems that you or I might have. Maybe he doesn’t have enough money, maybe he has a family problem, maybe the girl he loves doesn’t love him. Or maybe the girl he loves doesn’t want to be involved with a superhero. There are so many things you can think of that round out the character and the personality, so the superhero isn’t just one or two dimensional. You want a three-dimensional superhero who lives and breathes and worries and experiences things just the way you and I do, except for the fact that she or he has a superpower."
Stan Lee"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi"we are engaged in a grim experiment never before attempted. We are subjecting whole populations to exposure to chemicals which animal experiments have proved to be extremely poisonous and in many cases cumulative in their effect. These exposures now begin at or before birth and-unless we change our methods-will continue through the lifetime of those now living. No one knows what the result will be, because we have no previous experience to guide us."
"pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness"
E. E. Cummings"I believe that the unity of man as opposed to other living things derives from the fact that man is the conscious life of himself. Man is conscious of himself, of his future, which is death, of his smallness, of his impotence; he is aware of others as others; man is in nature, subject to its laws even if he transcends it with his thought."
Erich Fromm"“We need brains, is the bottom line,” Ivy said. “We’re not hunter-gatherers anymore. We’re all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn’t bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It’s our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.”"
"I have been clinically depressed for most of my life. I once used drugs to fix it. Then I stopped. I stopped because I decided they were making me stupid, and Id rather be miserable than stupid. I am what I am."