Captain America: The First Avenger

"I can do this all day. [First says after being repeatedly knocked down by a bully]"

"General Patton has said that wars are fought with weapons, but they are won by men. We are going to win this war because we have the best men. And because they are gonna get better. Much better. The Strategic Scientific Reserve is an Allied effort made up of the best minds in the free world. Our goal is to create the best army in history. But every army starts with one man. At the end of this week, we will choose that man. He will be the first in a new breed of super-soldier. And they will personally escort Adolf Hitler to the gates of Hell."

"[standing before his army] Tomorrow, HYDRA will stand master of the world, borne to victory on the wings of the Valkyrie. Our enemies' weapons will be powerless against us. If they shoot down one plane, hundreds more will rain fire upon them! If they cut off one head, two more shall take its place. Hail HYDRA."

"Question: Are you aware, that in some parts of the world, the bullies are the Americans?"

"Q: How much of the forties did you want to consciously incorporate into Steve Rogers – certainly the good aspects like that old school earnest heroism, but also maybe the bad side as well — like some of that initial prejudiced reaction when you first see Jim Morita?"

"Steve Rogers is a guy who, at the heart of it, has a very simple mission. He just wants to serve his country and do the right thing. And Chris comes off as basically a really good human being. He can wear his heart on his sleeve when he needs to."

"I was mildly familiar with the comic book, but I wasn’t a fan of the comic, which I sort of see as an advantage in a way, because it lets me be a little more objective about what works and what doesn’t. I mean I wasn’t familiar with it, but once I decided to do it, I read every Captain America comic that I could get and I sort of researched where he came from and where he started and the various iterations of him over the decades. I wanted the origin of the film to be based on a comic book, but I didn’t want to have it be in your face the way some of them are, you know?"

"Well the Marvel guys have a system that works really well and it’s the way that I wish the studios worked. They hire a filmmaker and they understand the film that the filmmaker wants to make and then they help them make it. If there is anything that does not fit into the Marvel Universe, they will say, “You are going slightly outside of the lines here.” In CAPTAIN AMERICA there wasn’t anything that they were uncomfortable with. It’s all based on the character of Steve Rogers and who this guy is. He’s this kid who is constantly rejected, he wants to fight for his country, nobody wants him… That’s the heart of the story. As long as you don’t mess with that template, you can pretty much do anything. They let me add stuff that was hugely expensive, but it related to the story and it helped tell the story. The whole thing with zip lining down to the train was not in the original script at all and that whole sequence just needed something to sort of give it an action beat to start it. There were all kinds of stuff like that. They let me do all kinds of things that were not in the script, were not probably in the budget, but they could also recognize that “Hey that is making the story cooler. Let’s do it.” It was really great. It was like a dream job in a way. They were very supportive."

"Discover the origin of the first avenger."

"When patriots become heroes."

"Chris Evans – Captain America/Steve Rogers"

"Hayley Atwell – Peggy Carter"

"Sebastian Stan – James Buchanan 'Bucky' Barnes"

"Tommy Lee Jones – Colonel Chester Phillips"

"Hugo Weaving – Johann Schmidt/Red Skull"

"Dominic Cooper – Howard Stark"

"Richard Armitage – Heinz Kruger"

"Stanley Tucci – Dr. Abraham Erskine"

"Samuel L. Jackson – Nick Fury"

"Toby Jones – Dr. Arnim Zola"

"Neal McDonough – Timothy 'Dum Dum' Dugan"

"Derek Luke – Gabe Jones"

"Kenneth Choi – Jim Morita"

"JJ Feild – James Montgomery Falsworth"

"Bruno Ricci – Jacques Dernier"