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

I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.

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

Though to the average person that you'll meet on an airplane, if you tell them you draw comics, they'll still have sort of the same response - not like that's seeped into the culture at large, that comics are not just for kids.

I never feel there's anything I can't do.

I've had a real lucky time working in Hollywood. I've talked to other screenwriters, and they're all kind of beaten down and their spirits are crushed, because they work on these screenplays and these projects, and then directors either take them and change everything, rewrite them and make them worse, or they film them and they're nothing like how they imagined it to be.

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.