The announcement that there is a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen television series hasn't caused me to drastically alter my opinions. Now it seems they are recycling things that have already proven not to work.

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

I doubt that there are many screenplays of movies that either of us have seen over the past 10 years that were first drafts, or were the work of purely one person. In my world, the actors and the director are all made of paper, and they do exactly what I say. I feel much more in control of the finished work. I feel like the statement that I'm making - even though it's in a medium by no means as glamorous or as widely recognized as film - is at least the statement that I wanted to make. That's a lot more important to me than the allure of working for Hollywood.

It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.

I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.