The Spirit (film)

"My city, I can not deny her. My city screams. She is my mother. She is my lover, and I am her Spirit."

"She provides for me, my city does. She gives me everything I need."

"All the enemy has is gun to knives. I have the entire city as my weapon."

"I'm gonna kill you all kinds of dead."

"Somebody get me a tie! And it sure as Hell better be red!"

"You're in love with every woman you meet, Mr. Spirit. You say lovely things to all of us and you mean every word you say."

"Entertainment Weekly: So, how have you modernized The Spirit?"

"One thing we did was, we were talking about how the Spirit is physically very strong and can obviously take care of himself. He finds ways to protect himself and civilians in Central City. He'll use a manhole cover as a shield or something. He hates guns. But there's also the sense of the Spirit being sort of clumsy. He may walk into a wall or whatever. I was talking with Frank once, and he was telling me about how he wanted this punch to look-he was hoping for the Spirit to really look like he knew what he was doing, and this punch was a deadly hit, right? So when he reached back to show me the punch, he actually hit himself in the nose. [laughs] It was hilarious, because it was exactly what the Spirit would have done. It was just a perfect image, a metaphor for who the Spirit is."