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.

As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back.

My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.

We describe [Paper Girls] as Stand By Me meets Terminator.It's a story about nostalgia and childhood, but with an action-packed, sci-fi bent.

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.

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.

I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end.