No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.

I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.

Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you'll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.

Well, I always talk about how I used to work at an insane asylum and stuff, which is true, but to be honest, I just make crap up more than anything else.

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead, or even if you were a hobbit, you're going to be white. That was an extremely old-fashioned, obviously really narrow-minded way to look at things.

I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.