I'm not going to complain about the fact that people are paying attention to my work. I suppose that wouldn't be fair.

It's one thing to be sitting at a drawing board, alone in your home and coming up with a fantasy character, and drawing her whichever way you feel like drawing, then dealing with a real performer. All of a sudden, things change. It's amazing, in working with actors, how much I learn from them and how many new lines will come to mind because of their personality or their strengths.

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you'll take up flying next, like that fellow in Metropolis.

I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.

A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it.

As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like.