The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities.

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.

When I go back and reread the stuff, I'm always floored by how deeply personal and revealing it actually is.

I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.

Surely comics require more effort on the part of the reader than movies or television. I'm always learning new things you can do with comics that wouldn't work in any other medium, and often they require the need to process a lot of dense information. Of course, the trick is to make the complicated seem effortless and spontaneous.

It keeps me moving when I see people doing stuff that I see as "my" direction. I think, "Oh, it's been tainted. Now I've got to do something new." There's nothing worse than working on your own stuff and thinking that someone else is following you along.

I think I have a very clear vision of what I want things to look like.