I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.

I just want to take a realistic look now, now that we have enough distance.

Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.

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.

It's TV shows like 'Buffy' and 'Angel' that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.

I've never had any interest in retelling stories from my youth.

Life is mostly just learning how to lose.