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.

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

I guess in my own egotistical way I like to create my own library of Batman books that doesn't run contrary to a single thing that has been published before, but it also stands on its own.

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.

You don't... get it, boy... This isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.

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.

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