And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.

If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special

Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work

It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed

Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story

Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.