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.

If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.

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.

Marvel movies, are seeming slightly less exciting now that Star Wars has appeared and everything.

I always think it's a mistake when you actually have to set books aside and actually sit down and research something. I always think they've got to come from within.

She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4.

I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.