I function better in an atmosphere of inner insecurity and fear.

Gratitude is the intention to count-your-blessings every day, every minute, while avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different circumstances.

Attention is the intention to live without reservation in the here-and-now.

There’s a little burst of creativity being director followed by lots and lots of meetings and talking to people and more meetings. It’s scary. And I can’t believe anybody actually lets me do it. But it’s going well so far.

I’m not afraid to make decisions. One of my friends said… we were talking about movies. It’s really just a series of decisions you make. They said, “Tim Miller: frequently wrong, but never in doubt.” I don’t know that I’m making the right ones, but I’m not afraid to make them. That keeps the train moving forward.

I’m friends with [David] Fincher. [James] Cameron gives me advice. I know a fair amount of directors who have been through it, and they all felt pretty confident that I would be fine when I got my shot. So their confidence made me feel confident.

I don’t want to make a movie for 100,000 fans that nobody else in the world sees, because I don’t think that’s good for the character.

I buy my Avengers tickets. But I think people are going to really get into seeing this other side of the world.

Once you get cocky that’s when you start to, A, turn into an asshole to everybody and, B, make mistakes because you stop listening to people or they stop telling you because you’re a cocky asshole. So I’m going to try and eat my humble pie every morning for breakfast and just hope that it turns out OK.

I mean Dark Phoenix series, the way it was done, they didn’t do it justice in the past movies, in my personal opinion. I just like the X-Men universe.

To be on set every day with a whole bunch of people that know their job and my job a lot better than I do and I’m supposed to tell them what to do, that’s very uncomfortable and awkward.

Compassion is the intention to see each human being as no better or worse than yourself, neither more nor less important, and as fundamentally similar to yourself.

There’s the larger shiny Marvel universe where everybody has new gear and it’s all made of chrome and leather. And then there’s Deadpool. I think the world that he explores is a much seedier, everyday sort of ordinary type world. But he still lives in that universe. It still has to sit next to all these other films.

I think actors, they maybe want more approval than I’m used to giving. Everybody does. Everybody needs a hug you know, all the time. I’m not very good at that. I could get better at that.

Avengers was cool. I liked it. But I feel like we haven‘t seen this side of the superhero universe. So I think fans want to see it, too. If everything is perfect and shiny and everybody has Quinjets and mansions, it just gets a little… I don’t know. I’m ready for something different.

You can resent your bald spot or be glad you have a head

I’m definitely not afraid to be wrong.