Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.

There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I really want to work with guys I really respect and enjoy.

The universe considers me its personal cat toy.

Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

On a certain level, I don't think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It's also been exploited and capitalized upon and politicized by one side or the other to the point that a certain degree of cynicism has attached itself to that term.

You can only have one voice on set, and that has to be the director.