Chris Claremont Quotes

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Chris Claremont

Profession : Writer

Birth : November 25, 1950

For me that's the magic of the printed page - we don't have to pay attention to the passage of time and focus in on the realities of these characters at a specific age or at a specific time in their lives, and we can play with that to our hearts' content.

Chris Claremont

But the key thing was that I knew of no other contrast between Wolverine as we understood him and Logan than you see in his behavior as a roughneck Canadian versus classical samurai society. That's the dichotomy in his soul.

Chris Claremont

My relationship with Marvel is that I work for them.

Chris Claremont

No matter how good of a ball player you were, you can't keep going forever. You're not going to be able to hit .300 when you're 60. You still look around and you think, 'This is weird. Have I missed something?' Well, yeah, you have.

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It's a fascinating world to drop a finished product on the marketplace without the intercession of a publisher.

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The one thing I have never been comfortable with in the modern presentation of character - and it may have changed, this is some years ago - is their total isolation from the rest of the world. It's all about superheroes interacting with superheroes. There's no normal life. No normal people.

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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?'

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The best moments in comics come from a primal image that captures the emotion and the conflict. What you add are the pieces that get you to the point and what happens next.

Chris Claremont

Comics are primal, down and dirty.

Chris Claremont

One of the seminal moments I remember as a young punk is, when Roy Thomas was doing an editorial read-through of a book before it went to press, and being so gob-smacked by it, he just canceled it right there.

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In L.A., you have to drive; in New York, you can do it on foot. The variety, the potential, of people is in your face. Like any good creator, you want to steal everything.

Chris Claremont

Isn't it amazing how the X-Men always managed to be ahead of everybody's curve no matter how they look at it?

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There's some good films, there's some films that could be improved. So we keep trying until we get it right. That's the nature of storytelling, whether it's on paper or on film.

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I think it would be cool if Hugh Jackman showed up in 'Avengers: Infinity War,' even if just for a tryout.

Chris Claremont

I never talk about work in progress because once I talk about it I don't do it anymore.

Chris Claremont

I would like to do a story where the country found itself a presidential candidate who actually will get elected preaching traditional values and then sets out to enforce them, where it actually comes down to the fact that reality as we know it may not be as etched in stone as we tell ourselves it is.

Chris Claremont

We figured the audience would want good stories, great art, wonderful characters, people you could fall in love with that we would immediately put through hell.

Chris Claremont

It is very hard for me to think of Logan without thinking of Hugh Jackman and I have no idea who out there could take over from him if they moved ahead. It's like thinking of anyone other than Harrison Ford playing Han Solo or Indiana Jones.

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It never would have occurred to me in 'Days of Future Past' to cast Peter Dinklage as Bolivar Trask, and yet as soon as he got onscreen I couldn't think of anyone else.

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I'm contractually not allowed to work in comics in the United States other than for Marvel.

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