- Vernon Wells: We are a society - especially the female part of it - we are a society that likes to look at things like that. At muscles. It was like: "oh, look at those muscles".
- Jenette Goldstein: I saw "Pumping Iron", the documentary, when I was in high school and I thought that was really cool. Although I did think that Arnold was a bit of a dick.
- Steven E. de Souza: I tried to make Bruce as grounded as possible. I was already aware of the overworked, overbuilt, steroid muscular hero, which becomes problematic - who do you have to fight him?
- Vernon Wells: Bennett was in love with Matrix but he hated him, too. He wanted to kill him but he was in love with him.
- David J. Moore: Here's a guy who went against the grain in everything that he ever did. Here's a guy who transformed himself, literally he chiseled his own body into this statuesque, muscular specimen.