Ever since 1980, sci-fi has generally been more Bladerunner than Star Wars. People talk about Star Wars being the most influential movie of all time and creating the blockbuster along with Jaws and that sort of thing, but really there's not been a space opera that anyone can go and see.

Writers are the most terrible kleptomaniacs.

I'm very lucky that I have this other career that runs alongside my comic career, which is a film career, and I've been given this really lovely setup where they seem to make the movies very quickly as well.

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

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

All my kids love superheroes, but my middle daughter in particular is obsessed with Wonder Woman and Batgirl.

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.