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.

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

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

I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can’t look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on...none of you are safe.

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