In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

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.

Film is a director's medium, and a film set is a complicated military structure - I have to keep reminding myself to stay in my place, or all will burst into chaos.

I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

At a certain point, I realized that I could draw anything, and there was nothing I should avoid - I could make it work. That's opened me up to being able to be much more comfortable telling any kind of story.

I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.