The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.

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.

The lovely thing is, if Marvel had a Spider-Man movie over at Sony or something, they own the rights to the character, and the editors and producers make suggestions and get notes and things. But you're talking about Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman. They're two of the best people in the world. The notes are just things like, "This is absolutely brilliant."

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