With great power there must also come ... great responsibility!
STAN LEE, Amazing Fantasy #15, Aug. 1962
I never thought that Spider-Man would become the world wide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I'd keep my job.
STAN LEE, interview, Mar. 13, 2006
I've written so many things over the years that I don't want to go back to being just a scriptwriter. I'm in what I consider to be the enviable position of all I have to do is come up with the idea and write an outline that makes it seem like it's a viable idea that will interest people, and then other people write the scripts – and I become the executive producer or the producer, depending on how much involvement I have, and I get a creative credit and then move on to the next project.
STAN LEE, interview, Apr. 30, 2002
I'm sort of a pressure writer. If somebody says, "Stan, write something," and I have to have it by tomorrow morning, I'll just sit down and I'll write it. It always seems to come to me. But I'm better doing a rushed job because if it isn't something that's due quickly, I won't work on it until it becomes almost an emergency and then I'll do it.
STAN LEE, interview, Mar. 13, 2006
If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as interesting to the reader.
STAN LEE, interview, Mar. 13, 2006
Everybody wants to feel that you're writing to a certain demographic because that's good business, but I've never done that ... I tried to write stories that would interest me. I'd say, what would I like to read?... I don't think you can do your best work if you're writing for somebody else, because you never know what that somebody else really thinks or wants.
STAN LEE, Brandweek, May 2000
There is only one who is all powerful, and his greatest weapon is love.
I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record.
STAN LEE, interview, Feb. 6, 2006
I try not to do anything that's too close to what I've done before. And the nice thing is we have a big universe here. It's filled with new ideas. All you have to do is grab them.
STAN LEE, Brandweek, May 2000
Someone wants to do a movie of my life now and he's writing a script, and I said to him, "What the hell could you do? I've never been arrested, I haven't taken drugs, I've had the same wife for 54 years – where's anything of interest to people?"
STAN LEE, interview, Apr. 30, 2002
I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don't think anything can really beat the pure fun and pleasure of holding a magazine in your hand, reading the story on paper, being able to roll it up and put it in your pocket, reread again later, show it to a friend, carry it with you, toss it on a shelf, collect them, have a lot of magazines lined up and read them again as a series. I think young people have always loved that. I think they always will.
STAN LEE, Brandweek, May 2000
I don't really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.
STAN LEE, interview, Feb. 6, 2006
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