Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey.

The trick is not caring what EVERYBODY thinks of you and just caring about what the RIGHT people think of you.

It's too theatrical not to express yourself constantly.

I was listening to the inclusiveness of Spider-Man, and why he's so appealing to so many people, but I didn't connect it all at first.

This is something I learned when I was working at a newspaper: when you put something on paper, whether it's words or pictures, and it's staring back at the reader, they are now alone in the room with them for as long as it takes them to turn the page. Whereas on television, the images fly by.

I was into comics because these were my real male role models, even though at the time, I didn't know it.

It was a very excellent day over there at HBO/Cinemax when they bought 'Powers' . I felt like I graduated television college, because they make amazing television. The person who said yes to Veep said yes to us, which made me feel very good about myself for five seconds. Which my self-loathing doesn't usually allow me to feel. Even I could not say that that wasn't a fun day.