What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.

Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.

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

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

I find that if somebody is writing and drawing a comic book, planning it to be a movie and a game at the same time tends to lead to a pretty lame job.

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.

The fundament of a superhero is the guy in tights saving innocent people from bad things. It's amazing how infrequently that seems to happen in superhero comics these days.