The highest form of leadership is one in which a leader raises up other leaders - not as an accident, but as a result of conscious effort.

The ultimate [act] that would be the taboo, to show how bad some villain is, was to have somebody being raped, you know? I don't really think it matters. It's the same as, like, a decapitation. It's just a horrible act to show that somebody's a bad guy.

He [Stuart Immonen] and I have known each other over email for 18, 19 years or something, so to finally work with him is like kissing the girl that you always wanted to kiss.

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

Marvel movies, are seeming slightly less exciting now that Star Wars has appeared and everything.

What I wanted to do was drown something enormous, like a Star Trek or Star Wars kind of space opera-type thing, but actually make it about someone who was just married to the wrong guy, and that guy just happens to be this amazing dictator, and she has to get her kids as far away as possible from this guy. So something that could almost be a TV movie, if you'd ground it and set it in Wisconsin or something like that, but to give it this enormous setting.

The highest form of leadership is one in which a leader raises up other leaders - not as an accident, but as a result of conscious effort.