The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

First, believe in your ability to create the future. That's what leaders do-that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been written-it is written by leaders.

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

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.

The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

Even when I was a little boy, when I was seven, I absolutely loved Wonder Woman, and I saw her as one of the superhero greats with Superman and Batman, and I think it's because she was her own thing. She always felt like the real deal the same way that Superman and Batman did. Whereas the She-Hulks and Spider-Women and all that kind of thing felt like a continuation of a concept.