The Past Is An Anchor With Suffering

Batman: A Force Of Chaos In My World Of Perfect Order. The Dark Side Of The Soviet Dream. Rumored To Be A Thousand Murdered Dissidents, They Said He Was A Ghost. A Walking Dead Man. A Symbol Of Rebellion That Would Never Fade As Long As The System Survived. Anarchy In Black.

I'm Just Running Through This List Of Potential Nannies And Wondered If We Should Go For A Superhero This Time. Do You Think Wolverine Would Be Interested? He Seems To Be On Every Other Team Right Now.

I Am As Resilient As The Steel That Was Once Made Here, And I Am A Fighter, In Every Sense Of The Word. We All Are.

The Success [of The X-men], I Think, Is For Two Reasons. The First Is That, Creatively, The Book Was Close To Perfect ... But The Other Reason Is That It Was A Book About Being Different In A Culture Where, For The First Time In The West, Being Different Wasn't Just Accepted, But Was Also Fashionable. I Don't Think It's A Coincidence That Gay Rights, Black Rights, The Empowerment Of Women And Political Correctness All Happened Over Those Twenty Years And A Book About Outsiders Trying To Be Accepted Was Almost The Poster-boy For This Era In American Culture.

I Just Trust The People Involved. Marvel And Dc For The Last 16 Years - Is That 90 Percent Of The Time It's Incredible Top Talent. Like, This Is What Makes It Different From The Pre-2000 Superhero Movies. I Would Say, Except Tim Burton And Richard Donner, It Was Generally, Comic Book Movies Were Done By Guys Who Weren't That Into The Material And People Who Didn't Really Respect The Stuff. But As Everything, Whether It's Wolverine, X-men, Avengers, Batman, All These Things, It's Just Been Done By Top-tier People. I Have Total Confidence That They'll Continue That Tradition Of Being Great.