Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today. Stan Lee More Quotes by Stan Lee More Quotes From Stan Lee The public always loves anything that's different, as long as it's well-made, if it's well-done. You never know what to expect when you go to one of these so-called superhero movies. Stan Lee superhero different long I think there's the element of the excitement of what I'm going to see, and with the special effects where you see men flying and walking through walls and shooting flame or whatever they do, especially the younger audiences, which make up a bulk of the moviegoers, they love that sort of thing. Stan Lee wall men thinking So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television. Stan Lee artist stories talking A superhero's catchphrase should be like a really memorable advertising slogan. It sticks in your head and you can't stop humming it. And let's face it, superheroes are just really selling themselves as products. Stan Lee superhero faces memorable Fans are almost always nice. I really find that they rarely come on too strong. Stan Lee fans nice strong I do conventions sometimes every other weekend. Whenever I have time, and it's not too far away. I get a lot of invitations (to appear at conventions) in other countries and I have to turn them down. Stan Lee weekend sometimes country I think comics will always be around. I think there's something nice about a comic book. People love to hold 'em, turn the pages, fold 'em up, roll 'em up, stick 'em in their back pocket, show 'em to a friend, and say, "Hey, look at this." Stan Lee nice book thinking In a sense, the artwork is the most important thing in getting somebody to buy a book. The person probably won't buy a book if he doesn't like the artwork. Once you buy it for the artwork, you hope that the story will also be good. Stan Lee important stories book I have to force myself to get angry. But I want to show the world that there's another side to me, that I am capable of deep, deep anger and fury. They better watch out for how I'm treated. Stan Lee want watches world Face front, true believers! Stan Lee true-believer believer faces People are pissed off about the seemingly impossible goal of social mobility. their proposed solution is to take the wheels off the cart. Stan Lee pissed-off goal people I work with people and we come up with ideas for movies, television and things like that. It's fun and I love doing it. Stan Lee fun people ideas No matter how good a story is, if you're at a newsstand and you see a lot of comic books, you don't know how good the story is unless you read it. But you can spot the artwork instantly, and you know whether you like the artwork, whether it grabs you or not. Stan Lee matter stories book Every kid loves fairy tales, stories of witches and giants and magicians. Then, when you get a little older you can't read fairy tales anymore. Stan Lee giants stories kids I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more than two syllables. Stan Lee use littles two I am so impressed with people who can really make a big movie, a good movie. The amount of work that goes into it is incredible. Stan Lee incredibles good-movie people If you have superheroes or characters that exist in the same world, and you're doing movies of them, wouldn't it be fun to put a couple of them together in one movie? Audiences love that. It's a natural thing to do that. Stan Lee couple fun character It's the fact that fans still care. I like all the comics conventions: The smaller ones are easier, the bigger ones are exciting.... Each one I say: Never again. But they're all great.... These things are important because they keep the fans' interest alive in comics. They keep the fans reading and their imaginations stimulated. Stan Lee important reading imagination I like Silver Surfer because he's the most philosophical, always philosophizing about the human race and the human condition and why people are the way they are, why they don't appreciate this wonderful planet they live on... he has a nice moral tone. Stan Lee philosophical nice race I like Spider-Man because he's become the most famous. He's the one who's most like me - nothing ever turns out 100 percent OK; he's got a lot of problems, and he does things wrong, and I can relate to that. Stan Lee spiders doe men
