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

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.

The guy who sits at the keyboard and types is so much smarter than I am. I think I got into writing so that I could spend as much time with that guy as possible.

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.

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.

When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written.

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