"My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'"

"I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book."

"We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I'm not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them."

"It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it."

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

"A pocket square must always - always - be white and a bit wild. If it is too prepared, it is tacky."

"It is a unyielding truth that the canvas of imagination has no boundaries except those imposed by fear — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching."