At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

Time away from thinking about something is as valuable - perhaps even more so - than directly thinking about it.

I'm very fortunate in that all the mediums I work in are extremely collaborative. Movies are probably the most solitary on a day to day basis, but even then you have producers and studio executives to work with and bounce ideas off of.

The world's an angry place these days. Let's just not take it out on each other.

You can save the city, but having the city be in jeopardy is one thing and having the people you care about be in jeopardy is another.

I love doing meta-humor, as long as it doesn't become too distracting and it's subtle.

I'm a very big believer that the reason you've seen this huge surge in superheroes both on television and in film is...part of it of course is zeitgeist. There's no denying that there's a huge appetite on the part of the audience in both TV and film for these kind of adventures.