A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine.

The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it, it's just a comic book."

I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

I've always been the audience that I wanted to reach, so I write for myself.

There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.