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.

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.

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.

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.

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