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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There should be nothing I can't live without.

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