Iman Vellani

“I grew up with all four of my grandparents.”

“When you think of comic book readers, you never think of the brown girl, and I was that.”

“In high school, my whole life was movies and comic books. I spent all my allowance on comic books.”

“I sleep a lot. I feel like I'm never rested enough.”

“Isn't that what we all kind of want, to feel like we belong?”

“So, back home, I have an Iron Man shrine, basically. And one of the things in it is a bust of Iron Man's head, but it's also a cologne. It smells foul, but it looks cool.”

“I just had the fattest crush on Iron Man, and I wanted more Iron Man.”

“I've listened to Bollywood music willingly now. That's a huge character development for me, I must say.”

“It's super weird that the same people I look up to are now acknowledging my existence. Like, what do you do with that? I don't know.”

“I think 'Ms. Marvel' really embraces and appreciates and acknowledges how much work goes into being a Marvel fan, because it's a lot.”

“On 'The Marvels,' I was the youngest and the newest and worked with established Oscar-winning actors. So that could be really intimidating, but they made me feel so welcome; they are so human, gave me good advice, and just held my hand throughout the entire process.”

“I got interested in cinematography when I started watching Ingmar Bergman movies and a lot of Agnes Varda. But acting's working out pretty well so far, so I'll see where this takes me.”

“I'm not on social media. I hear things that my mother tells me though.”

“My school was right across from a comic book shop. I'd often go there to read the 'Invincible Iron Man' comics.”

“We wanted 'Ms. Marvel' to be a love letter to Marvel fans.”

“Having something you're passionate about is really important.”

“I think 'Ms. Marvel' always understood fan culture on such a cellular level and it just really elevated the storytelling in a really unique way.”

“As cheesy as it sounds, being a part of the Marvel fandom just makes you feel like you're a part of something, and isn't that kind of what we all want?”

“AvengerCon is what my dreams look like.”

“Fantasizing is fun!”