"“It’s a more violent experience. It’s raw. It takes effort to do it, and that’s what we were really going for. It’s almost like there’s this kind of Right Stuff quality to it. He’s constantly booming around, accelerating. You think he’s going as fast as he can and then it’s like ‘Yeeaahh!’ He’s always got an extra gear he can use.”"

"There are a number of overt references to the past in “Man of Steel,” a title that itself summons up America’s lost industrial history. There’s even a scene in which Jor-El narrates Krypton’s rise and calamitous fall using immersive, metallic-gray images that morph and scroll across the frame like an animated version of a W.P.A. bas-relief mural. For roughly 100 minutes, or the running time of an average movie, Mr. Snyder is in control of his material. His handling of the story’s many flashbacks, which fill in piecemeal Superman’s Kansas childhood as Clark, is fluid and apt. Each return to the past becomes another tile in the mosaic, adding to the emerging portrait of the adult wanderer and seeker he has become. His adoptive parents, Martha (Diane Lane) and Jonathan (Kevin Costner), come into focus, as does the bewildered child (played by Cooper Timberline and Dylan Sprayberry), who doesn’t understand why he’s so different. Mr. Snyder borrows too many canted camera angles and too much sun-kissed fluttering laundry from Terrence Malick, but the Kansas scenes solidify the human foundation of a divided identity."

"We were pretty sure that was going to be controversial. It's not like we were deluding ourselves, and we weren't just doing it to be cool. We felt, in the case of Zod, we wanted to put the character in an impossible situation and make an impossible choice. This is one area, and I've written comic books as well and this is where I disagree with some of my fellow comic book writers - 'Superman doesn't kill'. It's a rule that exists outside of the narrative and I just don't believe in rules like that. I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative of the film. Also our movie was in a way Superman Begins, he's not really Superman until the end of the film. We wanted him to have had that experience of having taken a life and carry that through onto the next films. Because he's Superman and because people idolise him he will have to hold himself to a higher standard."

"“Killing Zod was a big thing,” Goyer said. “And that was something that Chris Nolan originally said, ‘There’s no way you can do this’.... Originally, Zod got sucked into the Phantom Zone along with the others.” When that ending proved to be unsatisfying, Goyer had to convince others to go with the twist. “We talked to some of the people at DC Comics and said, ‘Do you think there’s ever a way that Superman would kill someone?’ At first they said, ‘No way. No way.’ We said, ‘But what if he didn’t have a choice?’ Originally, Chris didn’t even want to let us try to write it. Zack and I said, ‘We think we can figure out a way that you’ll buy it.’ I came up with this idea of the heat vision and these people about to die. I wrote the scene and I gave it to Chris and he said, ‘OK, you convinced me. I buy it.’”"

"Miguel Ferrer as Vice President Rodriguez"

"William Sadler as President Ellis"

"Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan"

"Ben Kingsley as Trevor Slattery"

"Ty Simpkins as Harley"

"Guy Pearce as Aldrich Killian"

"Rebecca Hall as Dr. Maya Hansen"

"Don Cheadle as Col. James "Rhodey" Rhodes / Iron Patriot"

"Stephanie Szostak as Ellen Brandt"

"Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man"

"James Badge Dale as Eric Savin"

"Gwyneth Paltrow as Virginia "Pepper" Potts"

"A famous man once said, "We create our own demons." Who said that? What does that even mean? Didn't matter. I said it 'cause he said it. So now, he was famous and it was basically said by two well-known guys. I don't... uhh... I'm gonna start again. Let's track this from the beginning"

"And so, as Christmas morning began, my journey was at its end. You start with something pure. Something exciting. Then come the mistakes, the compromises. We create our own demons. As promised, I got Pepper sorted out. Took a little tinkering. But then I thought "why stop there?" Of course there are people who say progress is dangerous, but then I bet none of those idiots ever had to live with a chest full of shrapnel. And now, neither will I. Let me tell you: that was the best sleep I'd had in years. So if I were to wrap this up tight with a bow or whatever, I guess I'd say my armor, it was never a distraction or a hobby, it was a cocoon. And now, I'm a changed man. You can take away my house, all my tricks and toys. One thing you can't take away...I am Iron Man."

"You know who I am. You don't know where I am. And you'll never see me coming."

"No more false faces. You said you wanted the Mandarin, you're looking right at him. It was always me, Tony, right from the start. I AM THE MANDARIN!!!!"

"Juni (son)"

"Carmen (daughter)"

"Steve Buscemi - Romero"

"Bill Paxton - Dinky Winks"

"Ingrid (wife)"

"Matt O'Leary - Gary Giggles, Carmen's love interest"

"Taylor Momsen - Alexandra Anami, Juni's love interest"

"Tony Shalhoub - Alexander Minion"

"Emily Osment - Gerti Giggles, Gary's younger sister"

"Cheech Marin - Felix Gumm"

"Daryl Sabara - Juni Cortez, Carmen's younger brother"

"Mike Judge - Donnagan Giggles (the father of Gary & Gerti)"

"Alexa Vega - Carmen Cortez"

"Ricardo Montalban - Valentin Avellan (the maternal grandfather of Carmen & Juni)"

"Little Spies. Big Attitudes"

"Antonio Banderas - Gregorio Cortez (the father of Carmen & Juni)"

"Holland Taylor - Helga Avellan (the maternal grandmother of Carmen & Juni)"

"Carla Gugino - Ingrid Cortez (the mother of Carmen & Juni)"

"Huge New Adventure - Slightly Larger Spies"

"Christopher McDonald - President Anami"

"Danny Trejo - Isador "Machete" Cortez (the paternal uncle of Carmen & Juni)"

"Alan Cumming - Fegan Floop"

"Terence Stamp - Thompson"

"Donnie Keshawarz - Donaldson"

"Michael Kelly - Charlie Traynor"

"Anthony Ruivivar - McCrady"

"Anthony Mackie - Harry Mitchell"

"John Slattery - Richardson"

"Your Fate Has Been Adjusted"

"Your World Has Been Adjusted"