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

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.

What I do with everything is take things out of real life. You encounter all sorts of stories. It's a lot of your friends and family, sometimes there's quite sad episodes in their life and everything. So just little things I've picked up along the years always find a way into all of my stories.

Leaders don't ever "arrive." If we ever think we're done, we are done!

I love the fact that they [girls ]are into Superman and Green Lantern and Batman and everything, and they really do have all those toys as well, but I don't want all their role models to be men.

For years I've wanted to work with this guy, so to actually write at the top of my scripts "Empress, Script by Mark Millar, Art by Stuart Immonen" is an absolute pleasure.

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