“What I'm always afraid of is going "off-book,I always get upset when the director leaves the classic comic that was so very popular. I argued, and I won't say with who about what, but when we go way away from the original source material... that material is popular for a reason and I like to stick with it.” WayBookReasonMaterialsSourceDirectorsOriginalsSticksComicUpsetClassicVery Popular Author:Lauren Shuler Donner
“The thematic core of X-Men is tolerance. It's that for those of us who are different in any way - in a big way - whether it's you're a minority, you're a woman, you're a Muslim, you are suppressed or marginalized; it can go the whole spectrum, but even if you are shy or you feel like an outsider, and X-Men are outsiders.” IfsMenWayFeelsDifferentWholeBigsCoreToleranceMinoritiesShyOutsidersSpectrumX MenMarginalizedThematic Author:Lauren Shuler Donner
“We just don't want to repeat anything that we've done in the movies [X-man] or that we're going to do in the movies. There's so many stories to tell, we just want to stay out of each other's way.” MenWayWantDoneStoriesRepeatsX Men Author:Lauren Shuler Donner
