I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

I grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland in 1988 and there was just one year where suddenly all of the delivery kids that used to be boys were suddenly girls. It happened at our church too. Altar boys were suddenly altar girls. There was just this sense that all these young women knew there were openings here to be the first of their kind.

Yeah, that's right. Flee in terror, bitches!

Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.

After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.

I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.