I mean Dark Phoenix series, the way it was done, they didn't do it justice in the past movies, in my personal opinion. I just like the X-Men universe..

I'm definitely not afraid to be wrong..

I buy my Avengers tickets. But I think people are going to really get into seeing this other side of the world..

You'd think I'd be more comfortable with the action, but actually I'm more comfortable with the drama. I mean you get more instant feedback on what y….

Gratitude is the intention to count-your-blessings every day, every minute, while avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve di….

Being an animator, and I've directed tons of mo-cap, which really is about how do characters move through space..

As a first time director it's interesting, but not all that different from what I did before. A lot of parts of this job seem to be very similar to r….

I got into comics on John Byrne's run of the X-Men and the Dark Phoenix Saga. I got in around X-Men 95, right when it turned to the new X-Men. So tha….

I don't want to make a movie for 100,000 fans that nobody else in the world sees, because I don't think that's good for the character..

Prada makes really nice bags and then somebody in China makes knockoffs. This is the knockoff version of the mutant world. You have Weapon X. you hav….

I function better in an atmosphere of inner insecurity and fear..

Attention is the intention to live without reservation in the here-and-now..

You can resent your bald spot or be glad you have a head.

To be on set every day with a whole bunch of people that know their job and my job a lot better than I do and I'm supposed to tell them what to do, t….

Compassion is the intention to see each human being as no better or worse than yourself, neither more nor less important, and as fundamentally simila….

Peter Parker has superpowers, but he still has trouble making rent every month. I identify with that in a way that I don't with, like, Superman, for ….

There's the larger shiny Marvel universe where everybody has new gear and it's all made of chrome and leather. And then there's Deadpool. I think the….

I like the little chess match of how people move through space. I'm not comparing myself to Michelangelo with this analogy, but he said when he sculp….

I'm friends with [David] Fincher. [James] Cameron gives me advice. I know a fair amount of directors who have been through it, and they all felt pret….

Once you get cocky that's when you start to, A, turn into an asshole to everybody and, B, make mistakes because you stop listening to people or they ….

Marvel does a great job of making their characters human..