In part, it's so difficult to come up with something original, to come up with a character nowadays. If you created a globetrotting adventurer, he'd be compared to Indiana Jones. If you created a super spy, he'd be compared to James Bond.

I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers.

Do what you love and you'll always love what you do. I've found that that's true most of the time.

In part, it's so difficult to come up with something original, to come up with a character nowadays. If you created a globetrotting adventurer, he'd be compared to Indiana Jones. If you created a super spy, he'd be compared to James Bond.

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.

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

Time has a certain current to it, and it wants to flow in a certain direction.