"Yesterday, I was with your father. He was only a little further away from me than you are now. I went to sleep, and when I awoke the next day, I learned that, over night, twelve years had passed. And instead of the only man I've ever loved, there stood a girl, with his eyes. My heart is not cold, it's broken."

""I used to be married to a nurse. One day at work, she was bitten. Nobody knew but us. We lived like that for a few years. Then came the Purge. Feds were conducting door-to-doors, and when they knocked on ours, well, she told me she loved me, and then she let the sunlight in, and I had to watch her"

"A few years ago, the government declared 'mission accomlished' on all Lycans. Feds announced that we were to only focus on your kind now. Three months ago, a friend of mine sent me this. It arrived two days after he was found hanging from his own ceiling fan. Two hundred suspected Lycan captures. Every case was investigated. Every blood test came back negative. So my friend began to wonder; were they all false leads, or was someone trying to protect the Lycans; helping them replenish their packs, letting them regroup."

"She's more powerful than any of us, and they fear the day she discovers it!"

"If we continue to live as we do now, then we disgrace the past, and don't deserve a future. We must resist the humans wherever and whenever possible."

"They told me that I had no mother, that she died when I was born. I never believed it. I felt you, saw images through your eyes. But then, someone from outside my door, they said that since I was no longer a child, the wait was over, that I'd be dead soon; and that my own mother, right next door, would never have even known I'd existed."

"The Vampire and Lycan Clans had been at war for centuries before I was born, their endless conflict hidden from the human world. I was turned by a Vampire, and given the strength to avenge my family against the Lycans. And I was good at it! Then I found Michael Corvin; a human, who was turned to neither Vampire or Lycan, but a Hybrid of the two, and everything changed. Allies turned enemies, and the Vampire Elders that I had protected for over six centuries now wanted me dead. We retaliated, killed the Elders, and for a brief moment of time, we were safe. But then, a new darkness arose... The Purge. Human beings no longer kill each other. We have become the enemy they've been waiting for. Escape has become our only chance of survival. Therefore, Michael and I are leaving, tonight!"

"Though the world has changed, our enemy remains the same. The Lycans will rebuild, and will hunt for her father, as they did for her. But as they grow stronger, so will we. The Vampire Coven will not only survive this world; we will reclaim it."

"Your son died because he was fighting for all of you. Because he knew that running is not survival. Those were Lycans, not extinct, more powerful than ever. That thing was more than twice the size of any Lycan I've ever seen! They risked showing themselves after more than a decade in hiding because of her, and you handed her over to them! She is the last direct descendant of Alexander Corvinus; the only Hybrid child that has ever existed! Whatever it is the Lycans want from her, your son knew it was worth dying for!"

"Between the first and second Purges, Lycan youth rallied in the same way. Against the prudence of their elders, their calls for violent action carried the day. The result? The werewolves are nearly extinct. Is that what you wish for us? Extinction?"

"Q: How did you pitch “Avengers” to them in that e-mail?"

"Samuel L. Jackson – Nick Fury"

"Cobie Smulders – Maria Hill"

"Clark Gregg – Phil Coulson"

"Tom Hiddleston – Loki"

"Jeremy Renner – Clint Barton / Hawkeye"

"Scarlett Johansson – Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow"

"Chris Hemsworth – Thor"

"Mark Ruffalo – Dr. Bruce Banner / Hulk"

"Chris Evans – Steve Rogers / Captain America"

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

"Q: How much of that polish was you prepping for The Avengers and specifically the Steve Rogers character? Were you building something in there that was going to lead into this?"

"A: Well I had a very clear conception of what I wanted Bruce Banner to be and part of that was Mark Ruffalo. I was like, “I want somebody who just opens himself to an audience, who can’t help it, and who just takes you along everywhere he goes.” The other was Bill Bixby. That’s something that Mark and I both talked about. I felt that the performances in the other movies were very internal. And the movies themselves led to that, because they were all about Bruce Banner. The TV show was, “I have a problem and I help other people and I live with that problem.” So that’s sort of the way I wanted to approach it and the way… Mark and I spent a lot of time at the very beginning talking about rage, how it feels, how it manifests, what causes it, what it feels like afterwards—the nuts and bolts of the emotion itself. But in terms of the character, it was very clear that we wanted to have somebody who had gotten past where he was in those movies, so that when you meet him he is somebody who has internalized what went on in those movies to the extent that he’s someone you like and are interested in. If you’ve seen those movies, this would be a natural next step. If you haven’t, you’ll get the guy. You’ll get why he’s a good guy."

"Q: I would think Bruce Banner and The Hulk is the toughest part, because we have scene two other movies with two other actors playing him. Chris [Hemsworth], Chris [Evans], and Robert [Downey Jr.] have already been playing the characters. We know their characters. How have you been working on that and trying to develop your own Bruce Banner with Mark?"

"Q: We saw a lot of art before, but is there one sequence that you’re really proud of or really excited to work on?"

"Q: On some level, you just want to see famous actors playing these characters you’ve so dearly for so long."

"I don't like his other work; I think its shallow and badly written. I mean, I've got kids who like superheroes, and they think the Batman films are boring and pretentious. They like things like The Avengers and Iron Man because they're fun."

"Much like the once wide-eyed Captain, I felt a little manipulated. Had I known those whiz-bang scenes from The Avengers were supposed to have more heft, I may have approached them differently as I was strapping that feed bag of popcorn to my face. I would have looked for more pathos in the Hulk flinging Loki around like a rag doll and muttering “puny God.” Perhaps it was less of a laugh line and more of a comment about fundamentalist religion’s unsuitability with liberty-loving New York. Which means I don't even want to think about that shawarma gag!"

"So the Chitauri were Al-Qaeda? O.K., good to know. A suspicion I had during Iron Man 3 was confirmed during Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The Marvel Cinematic Universe (by which we mean the movies starring Marvel comic-book characters that aren't distributed by Sony or 20th Century Fox) has decided to go back and reposition the big battle from Marvel’s The Avengers as its 9/11. On the one hand, this is a “no duh” observation—at the end of The Avengers, New York was blown to smithereens. But the tenor in which Joss Whedon shot and cut the lengthy third act sequence was so zippy and fun that it seemed as if Marvel was “taking back” the iconography of New York’s destruction, from both the terrorists and real life. The key image from Avengers is an adulatory 360-degree swoop of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes assembled in full flex before the sturdy columns of Grand Central. It is not “Falling Man.”"

"Ving Rhames – Luther Stickwell (cameo)"

"The Avengers, which last week enjoyed the biggest North American opening in history, recasts 9/11 in the Bush years' dominant movie mode, namely the comic book superhero spectacular – albeit with a heavy dose of irony and added stereoscopic depth. But more fundamentally, The Avengers demonstrates how completely 9/11 has been superseded by another catastrophe, namely the financial meltdown of September 2008. To the extent that the movie has any sort of social content (or any content), it offers a flattering view of America's best as a group of eccentric individualists bamboozled into saving the world (economy) by the unflappable Samuel L Jackson's black dude of mystery. But even this Obama-iste reading is a bit of a stretch. The medium is the message. Hollywood felt threatened by 9/11 in 2001 but impervious to financial disaster in 2008. Three days after Lehman Brothers went bust, DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg assured investors that movies were "recession-proof". Of course, the industry did not allow for the simultaneous erosion of the DVD market and the public's discretionary income. The Avengers has less to do with the terror of falling buildings than falling grosses. The palliative for that goes by the name 3D. Bombs away: The Avengers is 9/11 as you've never seen it!"

"Throw down the hammer."

"Every team needs a Captain."

"Some assembly required."

"Avengers Assemble!"

"Nicola Anderson – Julia's friend"

"April Stewart – Swedish translator"

"Brian Caspe – British news anchor"

"Ivo Novák – Russian agent"

"Mike Dopud – Kremlin subcellar hallway guard"

"Michelle Monaghan – Julia Mead (cameo)"

"Ilia Volok – The Fog"

"Miraj Grbic – Bogdan"

"Pavel Kriz – Marek Stefanski"

"Josh Holloway – Trevor Hanaway"

"Léa Seydoux – Sabine Moreau"

"Anil Kapoor – Brij Nath"