I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.

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 started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn't satisfying, but to actually draw our own world - it's like controlling your own dreams.

I'm always looking for things I imagine must exist, but don't - this is usually the impetus to create that thing myself.

I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

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.

It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.