I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E.T.'

I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.

I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E.T.'

It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of people won't even read science fiction books.

Superman is not as innately cool as Batman.

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

I think if we ever encountered aliens, even communicating with them would be really, really difficult.