I think James Bond is a spy. He's not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies "comic-book movies."

It strikes me that the only reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight of disassembly, is to find out how it works. To understand it, so you can put it back together again better than before, or build a new one that goes beyond what the old one could do. We've been taking apart the superhero for ten years or more; it's time to put it back together and wind it up, time to take it out on the road and floor it, see what it'll do.

I've always been positive about superheroes.

If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it.

Youve got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what theyre like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.

I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.

I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.