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.

Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations.

I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative of the film.

Superman is not as innately cool as Batman.

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

I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it.

Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a reason, and it's not just metaphorical.