Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.

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

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.

Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?

I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.

Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.

Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.