“What is talent? It’s a big question, and one way to approach it is to look at the places where talent seems to be located — in other words, to sketch a map. In this case, the map would show the birthplaces of the 50 top men and women in a handful of professional sports, each sport marked by its own color. (Tennis and golf handily rank performance; for team sports, salaries will do.) The resulting image — what could be called a talent map — emerges looking like abstract art: vast empty regions interspersed with well-defined bursts of intense color, sort of like a Matisse painting.”
- nytimes

“When Captain Dynamo died, his widow discovered he’d been unfaithful. Now, as his enemies descend on his unprotected city, Captain Dynamo’s widow rounds up his five illegitimate children, each of whom have inherited one of their father’s super-powers.”
- wizard

“Violence is one of the most cinematic things you can do with film. It’s almost as if Edison and the Lumiere brothers invented the camera for filming violence. The most cinematic directors, they’re taking cinema and exciting you. I really do think about it like that. I’m doing my own thing, but I’m thinking about the audience, too, though not in a manipulative way. I am the audience. When they’re sitting there and they’re waiting for a car to crash, it’s like a money shot. At that moment, they want it: they want it to happen as much as the bad guy does. That’s what they’ve paid to see. And if, at the last minute, [it is] averted, that’s just me as director as torturer, ’cos I can.”
- timesonline.co.uk