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.

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 guy who sits at the keyboard and types is so much smarter than I am. I think I got into writing so that I could spend as much time with that guy as possible.

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.

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

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

Your subconscious is always working in the background, unlocking things and solving problems.