Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.

I'm so used to artists saying to me, "Listen, I'm going to have five pages done next week," and then three weeks later I'm phoning them, begging them for two pages. And Stuart [Immonen]is a guy who will promise you five pages and deliver six pages, and the six pages are even better than you could have ever imagined.

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

I've been doing the Millarworld stuff for decades, and everybody seems really happy that's working on it.

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

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.

I think most people know the concept of difficult family situations. So I try to just ground a very big concept in something we can all relate to on some level.