“You can’t have interesting movies if you tell a filmmaker, ‘Get in this bed and dream, but don’t touch the pillows or move the blankets.’ You will not get cinema. You will just get a platform for selling the next movie on that bed, unchanged and unmade.” —James Mangold, 2017 archive.is/fTLBG

That’s terrific. And even if it’s not intended, given the history of X-Men as a queer text, his line “Don’t be what they made you” stands out, too.