I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others... name me ten equally big, iconic Wonder Woman stories. Much harder. That ain't the character's fault, that isn't sexism, that's just not servicing the character.
J. Michael Straczynski
Related When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a... DAVID E. KELLEY There's Batman, there's Superman, there's Wonder Woman. She's the full-blown real de... PATTY JENKINS I will say that adapting a character like Da Vinci really wasn't that dissimilar from doing Batm... DAVID S. GOYER 'The Hunger Games' for me is I love the books so much and the character and the story were i... JOSH HUTCHERSON Let's be realistic - 90% of superheroes are male. Personally, I prefer Superman, Batman and Spid... KAJOL I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT You do Batman right, and he's going to be popular. He's a great character. I was once asked ... FRANK MILLER The leading character isn't always the most important or interesting character; when people thin... PILOU ASBAEK Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I do this a lot with names. I'll start with a name, and then for some reason he won't talk m... ELMORE LEONARD I love 'Batman.' I love the Adam West 'Batman.' I love the animated 'Batman.'... GRANT MORRISON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise tha... TED NAIFEH It's so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibil... BECKY LYNCH It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me. EVA GREEN I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interest... ANN BEATTIE It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be. PATRICK LUSSIER I find Jessica Jones a much more interesting character to write for than Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman ... MELISSA ROSENBERG When I was ten years old, I saw a big, fat beetle get squished. I don't recall the circumstances... JEREMY ROBINSON I think Wonder Woman is a very difficult character to crack. More difficult than Superman, who is al... DAVID S. GOYER It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It just seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist. I think the... CLAIRE DANES The first thing I look at with a project isn't who's directing, whether it's a big film;... OPHELIA LOVIBOND Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's charact... DAVID MITCHELL That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute the... LARA FLYNN BOYLE Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It... JIM ROHN Wonder Woman isn't even American; she's an Amazon princess. JIM LEE I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied w... AARON HUEY I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES The hardest part of ghost writing other people's stories is capturing their voices so that it is... MICHAEL ROBOTHAM It doesn't matter how much I think I know about Florida, it still flips me on the head every tim... MATT PASSMORE The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don... TAIYE SELASI It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure tha... MARK TWAIN There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on whic... MEL TORME Will isn't a screaming queen - that's Jack's part. They needed someone to play the part ... ERIC MCCORMACK It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what g... OLIVIA COOKE Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the exp... ROSABETH MOSS KANTER I haven't experienced college life. It's the phase that my character in 'Raanjhana' ... DHANUSH I must confess that the original 'Pretty Woman' was terrific and a hit, but I always felt th... GARRY MARSHALL The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That&... COURTNEY LOVE Wonder Woman isn't Spider-man or Batman. She doesn't have a town, she has a world. That was ... JOSS WHEDON One match that really sticks out for me, there's a bunch of matches with all the guys that I wor... BROCK LESNAR Anne Boleyn isn't a sympathetic character, but I like that she isn't a people pleaser. She... LYDIA LEONARD Hair and make-up people don't get enough credit for what they do. It's not just making peopl... KRISTEN CONNOLLY For me, 'The Social Network' isn't about Facebook. It certainly isn't about how peop... TRENT REZNOR Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding... CHRISTOPHER NOLAN Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the boo... GARTH RISK HALLBERG Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain&... DAVID BRIN I don't just play the trumpet because it's something that resonates with me: I play the trum... CHRISTIAN SCOTT The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's ... CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn... KARY MULLIS The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know ... RONALD REAGAN I don't want people thinking they know me instead of the character. Steve McQueen has loads of s... KIT HARINGTON I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a... ZACHARY QUINTO If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for... TOM WAITS It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified ... ANSON MOUNT What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows. RIDLEY SCOTT I've come around to thinking that having Donald Trump in the White House would be wonderful. Eve... MILO YIANNOPOULOS Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, b... VALERIE BERTINELLI I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me.... TED NAIFEH The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world o... YEHUDA AMICHAI There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearingho... AARON SORKIN The Wonder Woman that you see in 'Batman v Superman' is a woman who has been around, and she... GAL GADOT It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with... BEANIE SIGEL I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' se... D. J. MACHALE I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woma... KARI WUHRER I really wasn't even aware that Batman and Superman had this kind of grudging friendship. MARK VALLEY It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. The... DANIEL CRAIG How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fig... BRAD PITT I have a real passion for playing a role that's a strong female character, that's just not t... MISSY PEREGRYM I don't believe that there's a good guy and a bad guy. Unless it's like Superman or Batm... BLAKE LIVELY Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete... RAY LEWIS It's just a great, legendary comic book hero and it's one that has never been kind of been b... JOEL SILVER If the character is really well-rounded, and it's a really strong character, and if the writing ... AMANDA ABBINGTON I love the idea that movies, like 'Fast Times,' can be iconic and change people's lives ... TAYLOR NEGRON Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, ... TED DEKKER I think it's one of those funny things - sometimes you're not really friends with somebody u... MARK VALLEY Working on 'Nightmare Before Christmas,' I had endless arguments, like the studio saying, ... TIM BURTON Personally, I don't want to do theater that's very stylish, when it's just stories on st... ELIZABETH MARVEL I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyte... ROBERT STACK The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist. ELIZABETH OLSEN Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'... MARILYN MANSON I don't really know the story of the Pied Piper. I don't read stories, first of all. I just ... R. KELLY There's so much with my character in 'Dredd' that I identify with. She's my favorite... OLIVIA THIRLBY I'm a rational person, and I'm not a method actor. You don't need to call me by my chara... ZANA MARJANOVIC Hopefully, there's a place in music for Tinted Windows. If we're really trying to be iconic,... TAYLOR HANSON It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know th... EDWIN ARMSTRONG It was improv that really helped me start coming up with recipes and just believe in my instincts. T... AARTI SEQUEIRA I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It&... FOREST WHITAKER I think what is nice about 'Elf,' and why it doesn't play as one long sketch, is that th... JON FAVREAU I pitched the idea to FX that there's this larger 'Fargo' universe where there's tru... NOAH HAWLEY Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you ... MIA KIRSHNER When I was younger, I used to love Tim Burton's 'Batman.' I was, like, 15, and even then... EDGAR WRIGHT I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that... LYLE LOVETT If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that... OZWALD BOATENG
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GELB I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting a... MICHAEL J. FOX I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes... MICHAEL J. FOX As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high s... MICHAEL J. FOX There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion MICHAEL J. TUCKER Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and... MICHAEL J. COHEN Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying a... MICHAEL J. FOX [T]he commitment to a framework neutral among ends can be seen as a kind of value [...] but its valu... MICHAEL J. SANDEL First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the prin... MICHAEL J. SANDEL This is heavy, Doc. MICHAEL J. FOX In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the... MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO The sense of respiration is an example of our natural sense relationship with the atmospheric matrix... MICHAEL J. COHEN The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintel... MICHAEL J. BEHE The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity. MICHAEL J. FOX What other people think about me is not my business. MICHAEL J. FOX I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's j... MICHAEL J. FOX If you're lucky, in some point in the future when you're in need of guidance or perhaps moral suppor... MICHAEL J. FOX Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows ... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. MICHAEL J. FOX You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wan... MICHAEL J. FOX The rumor mill will always grind the grain of misinformation into the flour of untruth and the peopl... J. MICHAEL BREWER I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look a... MICHAEL J. FOX Some of the best friends you'll ever meet in your life, you'll meet though your children--mothers an... MICHAEL J. FOX Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully ... MICHAEL J. BEHE The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecula... MICHAEL J. BEHE Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - sc... MICHAEL J. BEHE The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or... MICHAEL J. BEHE Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of ... MICHAEL J. BEHE You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had... MICHAEL J. FOX Everyone stared in shock at the pool of white robes and the bright-red blood that began to stain the... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN First and foremost, the chicken was flooded with bad omens in the same overwhelming manner that Suri... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it’s how we run that defines us. And if I hav... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch— if the sun marked the end of the world... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Ferrol’s Law was created for ordinary Fhrey, not the Miralyith,” Gryndal said. “The Art has el... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Well, do you still make that marvelous wine? The pale red one, with a hint of nuts? I’ve boasted a... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Do you see the butterfly?” Suri grinned with enthusiasm. “Yes, I see it, but—” �... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?”... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Freedom, he discovered, had built a greater prison than his family or clan had. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN How are you speaking?” Gryndal asked. “With my mouth,” she said. “Does everyone play th... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Remember, it’s easier to believe an outlandish lie confirming what you suspect than the most obvio... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN What length will a mother go to on behalf of her child? How long is time? What is the depth of love?... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Strange game, this stating the obvious,” Suri said, shaking her head. She got up and joined Minna ... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Why are you here?” “Oh— I came to tell the chieftain we’re going to die.” The girl sa... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Caught early enough, the waking forest had no time to disguise itself into something mundane. This w... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Sunlight had a way of showing the realities that shadows born of firelight hid. The MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN