I love that the book [Paper Girls ] gets to kind of evolve and change in each era. Our third storyline is our best so far.

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.

My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.

The longer I've been writing scripts, the more I find that you have to give the artist more leeway or else you'll just be disappointed. You can't force them to draw every image that's in your head. Since I'm a horrific artist, I wouldn't want them to anyway. So I definitely give them a lot more leeway now than I did at the beginning.

There are a lot of differing opinions on that. Some people think you should change out more, but I think changing just 20 percent is less stressful on the aquarium and fish. Once you get used to the regimen, it's pretty easy.

I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, "This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my friends." It just felt much more real than the Sesame Street version of childhood that I'd been spoon-fed.

I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.