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I wish the 'Dark Phoenix' saga had been done more effectively than it was, but that was out of my hands.
- Chris Claremont
#Dark
#Done
#Hands
#I Wish
#Wish
Comics deal with fundamental archetypes. We've been called the myth-makers of the modern age.
- Chris Claremont
#Age
#Archetypes
#Been
#Deal
#Modern
The wonder, especially about the 'New Mutants' is, they're all kids. They're all growing. They're changing, literally, from page to page in terms of character and approach, past, present, and future. As a writer, that's the most delicious thing to play with.
- Chris Claremont
#Character
#Future
#New
#Past
#Wonder
I guess you go back to the old writer's adage that when they do your stuff in Hollywood, you smile sweetly upon your credit - if there is one - and enjoy the show.
- Chris Claremont
#Back
#Credit
#Enjoy
#Old
#Show
#Smile
You know, for a normal kid it might be how to ask somebody out on a date or how to deal with the SATs or just how to deal with the bully down the block. And the X-Men have the conflict of Magneto or aliens or what-have-you.
- Chris Claremont
#Conflict
#Deal
#Down
#Know
#Normal
In terms of the 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' movie, Bryan Singer has been a part of the X-Men family from the first movie. He knows about the comics canon and how it relates to his work as a filmmaker. He's more well versed in the canon than most, as are the people that are working with him.
- Chris Claremont
#Family
#Future
#Past
#People
#Work
The success of 'X-Men' paved the way, I have to presume, for Sony to make Sam Raimi's 'Spider-Man.'
- Chris Claremont
#Make
#Paved
#Presume
#Success
#Way
The challenge is, in terms of a canon like 'X-Men,' it's more like 'Harry Potter' and Hogwarts, or 'Game of Thrones.' It needs time and space to evolve and to bring the reader or viewer in and give them a result that's worth the investment of that time.
- Chris Claremont
#Game
#Investment
#Result
#Space
#Time
Even in the face of the greatest adversity, the key is to never lose hope, never lose sense of the dream that drives you.
- Chris Claremont
#Adversity
#Face
#Hope
#Lose
#Never
I think there's a yin and a yang to everything.
- Chris Claremont
#Everything
#I Think
#Think
#Yang
#Yin
When you're given the assignment to write, for example, 'Spider-Man,' the concept, characters and environment are all laid out for you. Everything is pre-established, and your sole responsibility as a creator is to craft an exciting, entertaining, hopefully original adventure, to add layers and colors to a canon that already exists.
- Chris Claremont
#Colors
#Everything
#Responsibility
The key thing if you're a writer is to visualize the scene and convey it to the penciller and turn the penciller loose.
- Chris Claremont
#Key
#Scene
#Turn
#Visualize
#Writer
People would much rather argue their own visions and conceptions about a book than engage in a dialogue with the author, because the author could always trump you with, 'I wrote it.'
- Chris Claremont
#Always
#Book
#Dialogue
#Own
#People
All things are possible, especially in the realm of superheroes.
- Chris Claremont
#All Things
#Possible
#Realm
#Things
I went to Israel for two months in 1970 and worked on a kibbutz. It affected me on levels that I hadn't anticipated, working on a daily basis with people who were actual survivors of the Holocaust.
- Chris Claremont
#Daily
#Israel
#Me
#People
#Two
The more stories I told, the more I found I wanted to tell. There was always something left unsaid. I got hooked by my own impulse of 'Well, what's gonna happen next?'
- Chris Claremont
#Always
#More
#My Own
#Own
#Tell
It seems that most of the projects I'm doing with relationship to Marvel's 80th anniversary occur during my core run on the X-Men titles.
- Chris Claremont
#Anniversary
#Doing
#Relationship
#Titles
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