We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I'm not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them.

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

William Shakespeare

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

Bill Owens

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control -- indoctrination, we might say -- exercised through the mass media.

Noam Chomsky

We don't invade countries for the reasons we're told or we would've done a lot of things about a lot of things. They tell you things like they hate freedom so you're okay with them attacking but it's for other reasons.

James Dye

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Sir Alfred Jules Ayer

I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico.

Ernie Banks

A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.

Marvin Kitman

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Niccolo Machiavelli

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

Edith Wharton

I'm not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.

Diane Kruger

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.

Henry A. Wallace