When I was a kid growing up in the '80s, the BBC showed those old Buster Crabbe serials like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. So instead of ponderous sci-fi or depressing sci-fi or dystopian sci-fi and all the things we're kind of used to, where it's always raining and it's always dark, I thought, "Wouldn't it be nice to do something that was just fun and absolutely nonstop?" Like, I love writing action, and this thing is that. It's all action.

One of the things that made Star Wars work was the kids didn't know who their dad was.

The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.

When you don't have time to do your job, that's a good indication you're playing the wrong game.

Batman: a force of chaos in my world of perfect order. The dark side of the Soviet dream. Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents, they said he was a ghost. A walking dead man. A symbol of rebellion that would never fade as long as the system survived. Anarchy in black.

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.

If you feel the need to make everyone happy, you should be a wedding planner not a leader.