All love is unrequited. All of it.

Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.

On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personality. Now I've been given the job of forming Superman's personality and, in some ways, drawing on my own background.

I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.

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.

Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?

Budget grows out of the story. If you're writing a story with people caught in an elevator for most of the film, you're pretty sure it won't be a $200 million movie.