In front of the officers, in front of Captain Phasma especially, they always used their appropriate designations, 
I just know that if you make a Superman movie you can't take kids to, you've done something wrong. 
The writer's curse is that the more you fall in love with the work you're doing, the more I think it shows. 
When I started out as a novelist, I thought I was going to be a private-eye writer. That was my intent, and that's what I studied, I mean, scholarly. 
For those he has ignored, he allows them this. He allows them God, their only ally. Places to worship, but no one to teach. 
It was responsible for the interlopers who plagued their lands. It 
'Alpha' is a very fast-moving book. It doesn't lend itself to laborious introspection and the navel-gazing that some stories can fall prey to. 
The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old. 
I'm a Caucasian American Jew. These are all things that make up who I am. 
Every writer is going to end up drawing from their own experiences in one way or another. 
I am the product of Denny O'Neil in many ways, I carry forth a lot of what Denny instilled in me. 
In darkness I follow the light and find my way to the beginning again, and again, and again. 
I write characters. Some of those characters are women. 
She would give him one more chance, Phasma decided. One last chance for FN-2187 to decide his fate. 
It was, strangely, like coming home, as if this was the place Poe had meant to be all along. 
For the light to exist, there must be the dark. For the Force, there must be balance. 
A character wandering around asking, 'Who am I?' isn't, in and of itself, a story I'm interested in telling. 
Comics don't work without the visuals, obviously. 
What we want to see is stories that are going to be honest stories about the characters that we're telling them about. 
You cannot lose what is inside you," Chirrut said. "You can only misplace it. The task, then, is to find it again. 
The goal of 'Revelations' is that once it's all done and finished, and you've read all of it, it is its own story. 
DC are playing catch up with Marvel because of things like 'The Avengers' breaking six hundred million domestic. 
Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true. 
Rapier Squadron was transferred from Mirrin Prime and redeployed aboard a refitted Mon Calamari cruiser called Echo of Hope. 
Like nightclubs and sporting events, entry into an amusement park is a permission to become someone else. We come for the experience and to relish it. 
The Force is with me, and I am one with the Force," Chirrut told Althin. "And I fear nothing, for all is as the Force wills it. 
So when she wasn't sleeping or just sitting and listening to the storm or tinkering at her workbench, she flew. 
A real stormtrooper is the extension of the First Order, of Supreme Leader Snoke's will, nothing less. 
Character is made up of a variety of different things. One of those elements is gender. 
Superman is precisely what we should be teaching our children. Superman inspires us to our best. 
Hope can live in a vacuum. 
I think you can't repeat beats. If you're doing something in one book, you can't do the exact same thing in another book. 
Their position at the Republic base in Mirrin Prime was marked by a gently pulsing gold dot 
The goal with 'Alpha' was to run towards the cliches and then to break through them, and that doesn't change depending on the medium. 
I think Batman has the Wolverine problem. I think he's overexposed. 
Every writer has characters that they become attached to and that they feel very strongly about. 
Enlightened self-interest" was how Solo himself had described it. 
I'm sick to death of the way the Big Two treat people. 
No, the Empire needed to be fought. It had to be resisted. 
POE DAMERON'S first ship was his mother's RZ-1 A-wing. 
Leia was looking up at Poe, smiling ever so slightly. Flyboys. You're all the same.Some of us are flygirls, Poe said.
I've always had a thing for theme parks and their less-glorious cousins, amusement parks, the carnival midway, and others of such ilk. 
in clear violation of the Galactic Concordance. 
In that moment he understood it had never been a game. He understood that he was never going to be one of them. 
I think if you look back at some of the stuff that we broadly label as the crime 'ouvre,' there are certainly elements of the supernatural at work. 
We have our mission and we are going to complete it. So grab your straws and suck it the fuck up. 
I am one with the Force," he said to himself and to the universe at once. 
FN-2187 was simply Eight-Seven 
Return London. Safest route. 
I love 'The Omen,' just as a piece of plotting. 
I come from a prose background. I come from short story background, and that led me into novels. 
My college senior thesis was going to be on the American private investigator. 
So he was FN-2187, well on his way to becoming the ideal First Order stormtrooper. That was what everyone thought, at least. Except FN-2187 himself. 
Somebody's got to win this war, right? 
I'm hoping Lor San Tekka knows where to find my brother, Poe. And Luke Skywalker may be the only hope we have left. 
Everyone uses everyone, Tee. Way of the world, isn't it? 
Punisher is scary; he should be scary. 
What is it you do for your family? Aside from trying to put it in your sister, I mean? 
Comics fans want new stuff that looks exactly like the old stuff. It is hard for the publishers, and even the audience, to change something. 
For me, plot always comes out of character, so I had to be sure of my characters. 
Good fiction can both entertain and light up those dark corners where nice people don't want to go. 
Being cursed with human hands is no excuse for clumsiness! 
Heroes are defined by their villains - Batman is nothing if he doesn't have Two-Face. 