A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

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'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

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

The villain is always more entertaining because he has fewer limitations. The hero is bound by honor, by justice and by the law, sometimes.

Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff.