Jeph Loeb Quotes

Every generation has their favorite Spider-Man television show. ~ Jeph Loeb

It's the interaction between those characters that really makes that movie as special as it is, and I'm proud to say, as you probably know, it was the highest grossing film of 2012, it's the highest grossing film that Walt Disney has ever put out, and it's the third highest grossing film ever, in the world. ~ Jeph Loeb

How Cable survived Second Coming and what his responsibility is to his daughter, Hope, may have something to do with the Avengers. ~ Jeph Loeb

Believe none of what you hear. Half of what you see. And everything you write. ~ Jeph Loeb

The Marvel cinematic universe and the Marvel animation universe are things that are very true, in terms of the DNA of what it is. But if, at the end of the day, all we're doing is telling stories that have appeared in the comic books already, then we're not really challenging anybody. ~ Jeph Loeb

For those of you that have been following Ultimate Spider-Man, you know how we took that show and brought it to the next level of what Marvel Television is doing. And Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. was the next level of what we wanted to get to. ~ Jeph Loeb

When we approached the Man of Action guys, we said, "We're not really interested in what's come before, except in the way that we want to make sure that it feels like it's Marvel's Avengers Assemble. From that point on, this is your cast. Go to it and tell great stories." ~ Jeph Loeb

The measure of a man is not in how he gets knocked to the mat, it is in how he gets up. ~ Jeph Loeb

Jeph [Loeb] will call me with updates, and I'll go, "Are you f - king with me?" I never saw this coming, and certainly never saw it coming while I was still coherent and in the game. That's the difference between me and the previous generations. (Legendary X-Men writer) Chris Claremont had to wait decades before his s - t was on the screen. ~ Brian Michael Bendis

When faced with a seemingly insurmountable problem... your only option is to act swiftly, some might even say irrationally. Removing the most dangerous elements first... and methodically attacking each subsequent challenge in a separate, but deliberate manner. ~ Jeph Loeb

We knew that, in doing something that's based around the world of the movie and how popular that is, we really wanted to do the biggest show that we've ever done, in terms of the look of the show. ~ Jeph Loeb

Wolverine and Spider-Man on depression:
--Wanna know why it's called "depression"? Because it IS depressing...
A death isn't like losing a job or getting divorced. You don't "get over it." You have to integrate it into your life. Learn to live with it.
But... Life does get better.
--Someday...?
--Best you can hope for.
--Someday. ~ Jeph Loeb

The Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) has done things that are far more heinous than anything Grant Ward has ever done as far as we know, and yet, at the end of the movie, you're rooting for him to come back on the side of the angels, ~ Jeph Loeb

As Long as we Keep telling stories about people we lost, they'll never go away. (from Bonus features 'Big Hero 6') ~ Jeph Loeb

What Cable is up to is not something that can be done quietly. It will raise the interest of some pretty important people and leaders in the X-Men community will have to step in at some point in the storyline. ~ Jeph Loeb

While I talked about comparisons between Cap and Cable, there's also a parallel with Tony Stark. Iron Man thinks of himself as a 'futurist,' Cable is from the future. Both have been at war with their own bodies. We look for characters with touch points to Cable. Their legacy means an enormous amount to him. ~ Jeph Loeb

It really showed that you can do a major motion picture, from the folks at Marvel, that has multiple characters on an epic scale. On top of that, it also showed us that one of the most important elements is a certain kind of levity. ~ Jeph Loeb

When we first sat down and talked about how much of the show we were going to do based on the movie, there are certainly things you can see right away, but we wanted to make sure that the audience who maybe never saw the movie or has maybe never seen any of the Marvel characters before - and I know there's three of them left on the planet - could have someone that could be their eyes and take them in. ~ Jeph Loeb

I want to give credit where credit is due to Eric Radomski, who is the head of our production for Marvel Animation and who also happened to direct the pilot as well, has been the supervising producer on the show and has really been just looking at every single way that we can just plus up. This is a great-looking show. ~ Jeph Loeb

I made a promise to my parents that I would rid the city of the evil that took their lives. ~ Jeph Loeb

This is, in fact, the biggest show that Marvel television has ever taken on, in the animation world. We had a real challenge that was posed to us, and that was this little, tiny art-house movie that came out last year, that I don't know if you saw, called Marvel's The Avengers, written and directed by our friend Joss Whedon, and it really set the template. ~ Jeph Loeb

I'm not here to be liked.

-Batman,Dark victory. ~ Jeph Loeb

Deep down, Clark's essentially a good person... and deep down, I'm not ~ Jeph Loeb

And I remember being foolish enough to think... let's fall in love. ~ Jeph Loeb

We want to be able to let the audience get to know these folks. One of the things about The Avengers, over the last 50 years, is the fun of changing up the gang and bringing in new characters. ~ Jeph Loeb

A father's love can be a terrible thing ~ Jeph Loeb

I've really been very focused on Jessica Jones. Our series was well on its way to being created by the time we even saw scripts from Daredevil, and Luke Cage didn't even have a showrunner hired then. Jeph Loeb [Marvel TV boss] is the master of the connective tissue, but each series exists in its own world. ~ Melissa Rosenberg

Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers. ~ Damian Loeb

The time between meeting, and finally leaving is sometimes called falling in love. ~ Lisa Loeb

When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren't glued to computers because they didn't exist, so being active was all we knew. ~ Lisa Loeb

If we all leap before we crawl, we might fall. ~ Lisa Loeb

I love reading Warren Buffett's letters, and I love contrasting his words with his actions. He's a very wise guy. ~ Daniel S. Loeb

Man is a megalomaniac among animals-if he sees mountains he will try to imitate them by pyramids, and if he sees some grand process like evolution, and thinks it would be at all possible for him to be in on that game, he would irreverently have to have his whack at that too. That daring megalomania of his-has it not brought him to his present place? ~ Jacques Loeb

I knew Otto Kahn [According to the Figaro, Mr. Kahn on first going to America was a clerk in the firm of Speyer and Company, and married a grand-daughter of Mr. Wolf, one of the founders of Kuhn, Loeb & Company], the multi-millionaire, for many years. I knew him when he was a patriotic German. I knew him when he was a patriotic American. Naturally, when he wanted to enter the House of Commons, he joined the 'patriotic party.' ~ Denis Fahey

You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself. ~ Jeph Jacques

There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships. ~ Lisa Loeb

Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible. ~ Paul Rogat Loeb

Perhaps I was always intensely curious, but my Columbia education gave me a framework and a perspective to investigate new things - things that could be put into a historical and philosophical lineage. ~ Daniel S. Loeb

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long. ~ Jeph Jacques

Ive learned from dieting and not dieting that literally the thing that works best for me is that if I think of it, I better go ahead and have it. ~ Lisa Loeb

Possibility is the oxygen upon which hope thrives. ~ Paul Rogat Loeb

I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano. ~ Lisa Loeb

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich. ~ James Loeb

The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race. ~ Gerald M. Loeb

I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture. ~ Damian Loeb

When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it. ~ Damian Loeb

My nutritionist always said to eat whatever you want. ~ Lisa Loeb

Fantasy works inwards upon its author, blurring the boundary between the visioned and the actual, and associating itself ever moreclosely with the Ego, so that the child who has fantasied himself a murderer ends by becoming a Loeb or a Leopold. The creative Imagination works outwards, steadily increasing the gap between the visioned and the actual, till this becomes the great gulf fixed between art and nature. Few writers of crime-stories become murderers
if any do, it is not the result of identifying themselves with their murderous heroes. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Our mission is to plant ourselves at the gates of Hope - not the prudent gates of Optimism, which are somewhat narrower; nor the stalwart, boring gates of Common Sense; nor the strident gates of Self-Righteousness, which creak on shrill and angry hinges (people cannot hear us there; they cannot pass through); nor the cheerful, flimsy garden gate of "Everything is gonna be all right." But a different, sometimes lonely place, the place of truth-telling, about your own soul first of all and its condition, the place of resistance and defiance, the piece of ground from which you see the world both as it is and as it could be, as it will be; the place from which you glimpse not only struggle, but joy in the struggle. And we stand there, beckoning and calling, telling people what we are seeing, asking people what they see. ~ Paul Rogat Loeb

I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals. ~ Lisa Loeb

They rise in the morning, and they sleep in the dark. And even though nobody's looking, she's falling apart. ~ Lisa Loeb

I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style. ~ Damian Loeb

You are the treasure custodian, cleaning the moon for me, scouring the sky so the stars would shine bright. ~ Lisa Loeb

Your whole life people tell you to do what you love. But if you gotta do something else to pay the bills, you don't automatically have to be miserable. ~ Jeph Jacques

I always find myself stopping to write down ideas of things I'd like to make from computer hardware items to things new moms need - inventions to share with others to make their lives more fun or interesting or easy. ~ Lisa Loeb

In order to handle my emotional pain I talk to friends about it, I write, I breathe, and most of all, I put it in perspective. ~ Lisa Loeb

Will it be possible to solve these problems? It is certain that nobody has thus far observed the transformation of dead into living matter, and for this reason we cannot form a definite plan for the solution of this problem of transformation. But we see that plants and animals during their growth continually transform dead into living matter, and that the chemical processes in living matter do not differ in principle from those in dead matter. There is, therefore, no reason to predict that abiogenesis is impossible, and I believe that it can only help science if the younger investigators realize that experimental abiogenesis is the goal of biology. ~ Jacques Loeb

Since Pawlow and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of optic and acoustic signals, it no longer seems strange to us that what the philosopher terms an 'idea' is a process which can cause chemical changes in the body. ~ Jacques Loeb

If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most. ~ Damian Loeb

I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s. ~ Lisa Loeb

You tried to hide between the lines of a story never told. ~ Lisa Loeb

There are no dumb questions?only dumb answers. ~ Marshall Loeb

The Lisa Loeb Eyewear line was created to satisfy all of those people who always stop me and ask me where I get my glasses because they want some just like mine! ~ Lisa Loeb

As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs. ~ Lisa Loeb

I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds. ~ Lisa Loeb

Knowledge born from actual experience is the answer to why one profits;
lack of it is the reason one loses ~ Gerald M. Loeb

Before venturing on so large an undertaking as is involved in the task I had set myself I consulted a number of distinguished scholars as to the desirability of such a series. ~ James Loeb

One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself. ~ Lisa Loeb

It is wise to be sure, but otherwise to be too sure. ~ Sophie Irene Loeb

I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes of the series with this preface. ~ James Loeb

I make sure to sleep eight hours, and I'm much better about eating, because I'm not standing in front of my pantry. I go to the market and pick up little carrot nubs. ~ Lisa Loeb

If you haven't noticed so far, I think sleep is really important. ~ Lisa Loeb

There are many different ways to look at a situation, and it's important to look at things the way they are. ~ Lisa Loeb

When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet. ~ Damian Loeb