Often I'll do research just to get a time period correct, but I didn't have to for the '70s... I feel like I can close my eyes and still see it so clearly.

I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's a very freeing thing.

I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.

I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.

I knew how to draw all of the different smokestacks on the old trains and all that stuff, and then I realized that if I can draw trains, which is the thing I was probably the least interested in in the world at the time, I can do anything and find a way into it that will be interesting.

I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.