If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.

I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone.

We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.

A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.

I have friends in different parts of the world, and they'll all go online at the same time and all pull up a movie and hit play, at the same moment, and then they'll comment to each other about it. They're sharing an experience, even though they're on different parts of the planet.

I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.