Josh Trank

“You can't just keep telling a story the same way over and over again. And I think it only helps the world to be more honest with young kids, to show them the world that they go walk outside and see.”

“I have a great relationship with everyone at Lucasfilm and with Kiri Hart.”

“There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.”

“I feel like we're going to see a lot more movies that mix documentary style with fiction, more along the lines of 'District 9.'”

“Superhero movies have become a genre unto themselves, and I didn't really grow up on superhero movies. I grew up on genre movies before superhero was a genre.”

“People are religious about comics the way people are religious about the Bible.”

“Most superheroes are painted with a specific moral objective that makes them who they are. And that moral objective influences everything they do, so there's an expectation for what you're going to see out of a certain character.”

“I ended up losing weight and going through a lot of stuff, but yeah, that is so much of my life and my past. I'm glad that I went through that because I don't think I would be where I am now if I hadn't gone through it. It spills over in most of my love for movies and being alone.”

“In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,' the star was the writing and the storytelling, and the characters and the twists and the cleverness in the setup and payoff and execution.”

“I grew up in the '90s, and I loved Nirvana.”

“If I was painting a picture, I wouldn't want to take a picture of a single paint stroke. I'd rather show people what it looks like when it's done.”

“'Bowling For Columbine' and 'Gus Van Sant's Elephant' really intrigued me. With 'Bowling For Columbine', I think Michael Moore just gave the perfect exploration of both the mass media interpretation of the event and going into the minds of these kids. These were messed-up kids who had hit a point of no return.”

“I had a condition called gynecomastia - I had really big man-boobs, and I got a surgery for it.”

“You can't have bad without good. You can't have right without wrong. You can't have fantastic without mundane. You need to experience all that to really earn the title of the film, 'Fantastic Four.'”

“By the way, I have had zero press training.”

“In this day and age, people have come to expect that artists are going to give everybody information on Twitter about what they're doing, but not every artist is like that. I'm not really like that.”

“When I was in middle school and high school, I was over 100 pounds overweight.”

“Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you're immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.”

“I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there's no such thing as rules.”

“Nobody starts out evil - we know that. It's life circumstances that lead them to that.”