What you have with the Bond movies is this character gliding over everything. The fact nothing touches him is why we all want to be him. But it also makes him a sort of superman who in the end you don’t really relate to. – Robert Wade
Superman was never previewed because the producers didn’t trust Warners with the film. – Richard Donner
It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don’t they do something about it? They’ve done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don’t we just re-release this thing? – Richard Donner
When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her. – Orlando Bloom
As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume. – Orlando Bloom
I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn’t think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman. – Richard Donner
Whereas Superman is a godlike guy from another planet and Batman is this mysterious, unknowable billionaire, everyone in ‘Spider-Man’ is human and flawed. – Rhys Ifans
Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover? – Phil Donahue
I wouldn’t want to be Superman. Batman would be cool. But the one I’ve always wanted to play is the Joker. There is a maniacal and dangerous side to me. – T. J. Miller
‘Superman’ was a total accident. The producers of the animated series were having a hard time finding someone to read the character. I was brought in through a connection and, I think, out of desperation. – Tim Daly
We’ve tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, ‘Yeah, if I was Superman, that’s what I’d do.’ Even though he’s an alien, he’s more relatable, more human. – Zack Snyder
I was chosen for ‘Wolverine’ because there weren’t any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With ‘Batman v Superman’ and ‘Hannibal,’ I got the roles as a result of previous work I’d done, not just because of my nationality. – Tao Okamoto
Man, it’s hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren’t careers supposed to culminate in a role like that? And because I’m a big fat geek, as long as there’s stuff I’m excited about – and isn’t that really the definition of geek? – there’ll always be roles I’d love to play. – Yuri Lowenthal
I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross. – Zack Snyder
I remember when I was a kid, I would watch ‘Superman’, and I was super into the feeling of knowing that Clark Kent is Superman and no one knows. – Thomas Bangalter
I have a beautiful wooden Superman statue with a removable cape – I really love that piece. – Tim Daly
If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not. – Stephen Hawking
I loved Superman growing up. I saw a couple of those movies in the theater, and I watched ‘Superman II’ 8000 times. – Stephen Amell
I’ve always wanted to be Batman, but I don’t naturally tend towards Batman. I tend towards Robin, but I did get to play Superman. – Yuri Lowenthal