If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.

In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.

What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything down and find the kind of essence, the skeleton if you like, which can then be fleshed out by performance and cinematography.

If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.

I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.

There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.