Geoff Johns Quotes

One of the things that I thought really worked was that you have 'Smallville' on television and 'Superman Returns' come out in the theater, and it was fine. Nobody freaked out; nobody thought they were competing.

Geoff Johns

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• I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Hand

• My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Music
  • Character
  • Film

• For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Believe
  • America

• Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Think
  • Know
  • I Think

• 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.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Respect

• I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was – you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Know
  • Sense
  • Rules

• I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Superman
  • Hire

• Christopher Reeve so completely inhabited the character Superman when he was in that costume, and that had such a huge effect on me as a child, watching those films back in the '70s. There was so much of that character that was, for me, Superman.

  

  Gary Frank
  • Character
  • Child
  • Superman

• As a kid, when most of my friends were into Superman and Batman, there was only one superhero who held my interest - The Green Hornet.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Friends
  • Green
  • Superhero

• Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Pain
  • Forever
  • Quitting

• I understand the rules of Superman - not necessarily better than anyone else - but better than a normal filmmaker would. After doing 'Watchmen' and digging that deep into the why of superheroes, when Superman is presented to you, I felt like I was in a unique position to say 'I get this guy. I know what this is.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Deep

• You name him. I beat him.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • You
  • Name
  • Him

• Expectations are high. Clearly I am not a superman. There is a little bit of euphoria in India. I have a wife and two kids.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Kids
  • High
  • Wife

• Civilization is measured in no small part by these standards. The famous beauty and symmetry of the Greek race in its prime was due in no small part to their general participation in athletic games. This meant development.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Small
  • Famous
  • Greek

• My music is not lovely.

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Music

• You struck me dumb, Like radium Like Peter Pan, or Superman, You have come... to save me. Come on and save me... Why don't you save me? If you could save me, From the ranks of the freaks, Who suspect they could never love anyone, Except the freaks, Who suspect they could never love anyone, Except the freaks, Who could never love anyone.

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Why
  • Dumb
  • Superman

• I do proclaim myself king of bachata because I have to represent my genre. I have to always come out and put on the Superman cape. I'm pretty much representing my culture. I'm not going to change that. But I definitely don't want there to be a misconception where people are like, 'The only thing he likes to do is bachata.'

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Culture

• Superman tends to stand very upright, and he's very symmetrical, and those are actually the most difficult poses for me to draw.

  

  Jim Lee
  • Superman

• The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Important
  • Power
  • Control

• Technology is great, because you can edit and put things together from some of your demos. With this record, there’s a lot of elements of demos and recordings that we did that we managed to put in to the proper recordings that we’d done later.

  

  Neil Primrose Travis
  • Technology
  • Recordings
  • Demos

• The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.

  

  Sheryl Crow
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Pretty

• The only time I felt I was different was when one of my friends said, 'I hate reading' and I stared at her like, 'What kind of an alien creature are you?!' Because it was so incomprehensible to me that someone could dislike reading! That really started my desire to help other children love reading and writing.

  

  Adora Svitak
  • Time
  • Different
  • Writing

• One of the things that I thought really worked was that you have 'Smallville' on television and 'Superman Returns' come out in the theater, and it was fine. Nobody freaked out; nobody thought they were competing.

  

  Geoff Johns
  • Superman