Christopher Priest

You don't want to have a character say what's bothering him; you want to define characters by action. ”

My first draft of Marvel Knights 'Black Panther' was not funny at all. They smartly rejected the entire script and counseled me to inject liberal doses of humor into very serious subject matter. ”

I never really considered 'Quantum & Woody' a comedic book or a funny book. I never thought of it as a satire. ”

The way that I process and make writing work is I'm really telling true stories; I'm just putting them in a cape and putting an 'S' on its chest. ”

Deathstroke,' in my view, is a family drama. It's like the 'Sopranos' with super villains. ”

The problem with most liberals - myself included - is we tend to think we're post-racial: that we've got a handle on things because we're not racists. ”

I saw 'Get On Up' about a dozen times. I went every day. Every single day, I was standing outside when the movie theatre opened and bought my ticket. The theatre was usually empty. I live in a town that wasn't eager or very interested in a James Brown biopic, but I couldn't stop watching Boseman. ”

I think most superhero stories have already been done a million times. ”

It made absolutely no sense to me why Panther would ever join a super-hero team; he's not a super-hero, and the record shows he did a whole lot of nothing most of the time. ”

You go back to look over the body of my work, and there are no archetypal villains in my books. ”