You know those actors who have a sense for how they should be used? I don't think I have that.

I love actors, number one. There's probably nobody that you could name that I don't like, depending on what it is they're in.

I will say that comic books are not the easiest things to translate to film, number one. Even the most well meaning of filmmakers find what's acceptable on the printed page is very difficult to bring to film.

In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there's too much I liked about it to give it up completely.

A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input.

When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.

I think 'Comic Book: The Movie' is the apex of my career in terms of making a personal statement that has significance to me and resonates with biographical detail about not only my career, but all the people that I've worked with in my career. All of it's riddled, on- and off-camera, with people I've known and worked with for decades.