I'm always working on something. I wish I had more time for free-thinking and brainstorming new ideas. That's not to say my mind doesn't wander, but I find myself wishing for more of that kind of time.

There should be nothing I can't live without.

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.

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

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

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.

Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more than one place than one particular time, which is very vexing.