I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!

Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off wanting to be solitary, because a) it's simpler, and b) that isolation is something that I relate to as a storyteller. And then no matter what, I always end up with a team.

Life's a show and we all play a part And when the music starts We open up our hearts

Politics, glamor, fame - they're all mixed up together, and they always have been.

Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.

People want the tragedy. They need things to go wrong, they need the tension. In my characters there’s a core of trust and love that I’m very committed to. These guys would die for each other, and it’s very beautiful. But at the same time, you can’t keep that safety. Things have to go wrong, bad things have to happen.

There are many films and TV shows I make where people find themselves in fantastical situations; as often as possible their reactions to it are very normal.