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

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

Of course we're Criminals

In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.

Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for.

Mighty cultures never - are almost never conquered. They crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats because everything that isn't working out perfectly every time.

When I'm writing a comic book, I'm thinking about a character that I'm going to be drawing on the page. I've never drawn a character to look like who I want to cast in a movie because I don't think that way. I'm a real monomaniac. I do one thing at a time.