"It’s not just for comic book readers. I mean it’s got a lot of stuff to go through the editing process yet but so far it’s already rating an R and it’s too violent and there’s swearing in it and stuff like that. It’s packed with really fucking cool shit. It’s any boy’s dream really.

You’re in there, you’re fucking Arnold Schwarzenegger and it’s all teenagers swearing. It’s what you’d be like in school, it’s not all Disneyed up. It’s as natural as we can possibly make it.

The whole idea with Kick-Ass is actually a reality, it’s not like Spider-Man, it’s anyone can do it, anyone can dress up. All the things that happen, the events that Kick-Ass goes through are very traumatic…"