There is a friend of mine that is very into the comic book world, and he showed me '300,' and I looked at it, and I said, 'Wow, that could be a great film.'
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I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.
For me, the reason to make the movie is that if people like the comic, then people would like the movie if it was well made. There are good movies for them, but very few. And I mean that in a true sense. If they love your story for freaking 30 years, then they can do a movie about it.
There are great comic books, these great geniuses that manage to tell you a story in one frame, and that became the thing that opened my eyes.
It seems like they make every comic book into a film. 'Watchmen' is my favorite of all time.
I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.
I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.
When someone says 'comic book movies', what they inevitably mean is a summer superhero blockbuster, with heavily-muscled and tightly-gluted men (plus the occasional token woman) in tight-fitting costumes punching the living daylights out of one another for two hours.
The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.
I'd been a fanatic of movies since I was a wee lad, so I got into the films before I got into the comics.
One of my comics is read by more people - around 70,000 - than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater Club. That puts things in perspective.
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