"Comic book" has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call Die Hard "a comic-book movie," when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.

The American conscience died with the Kennedys.

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.

I take away his weapon. Both of them.