When you expect the best from people, you will often see more in them than they see in themselves.

There's almost a universe as big as the Marvel Universe with X-Men. I mean, Deadpool is something I think everybody was taken surprise by, except for the people who read the comic book.

Oddly, I think if you look at comic books, you look at the shelves in the store, it's predominantly male characters, historically. But if you look outside the window it's 52-percent female, and something odd is going on there. So I do think it's your responsibility as a writer, really, to create stuff that little girls can get into too. I want my daughters to have role models that are female.

If you don't demonstrate leadership character, your skills and your results will be discounted, if not dismissed.

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

I'm a huge fan of the Rod Serling sci-fi, where they could take the most odd and enormous ideas but ground them in something very human.

Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.