The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.

Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.

I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

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.

There can always be new beginnings... even for people like us.