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.

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.

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.

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

There should be nothing I can't live without.

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.