You kind of worry for the characters in a way that you don't normally in sci-fi, because sci-fi tends to be about the ideas, and this is about people.

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.

I think exactly the same qualities as men [women role model needs], exactly the same, which is kindness, courage and intelligence.

I'm just running through this list of potential nannies and wondered if we should go for a superhero this time. Do you think Wolverine would be interested? He seems to be on every other team right now.

The lovely thing is, if Marvel had a Spider-Man movie over at Sony or something, they own the rights to the character, and the editors and producers make suggestions and get notes and things. But you're talking about Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman. They're two of the best people in the world. The notes are just things like, "This is absolutely brilliant."