I don't really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.

When you work with people whom you like and you admire because they're so good at what they do, it doesn't feel like work. It's like you're playing.

I'm very proud of being a hack. It's why I've lived as long as I have, I think.

Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.

Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.

To be honest, when I was writing these stories a million years ago, I never thought about movies at all one way or another. It would have seemed almost miraculous for these things to be movies someday. To me, they were just comic books that I hoped would sell so I could keep my job.

Once you get the script, you then hope you can get the director that you want. Then you hope he can get the cast he wants. Again, you can go quickly or there can be a million stumbling blocks. There's just no way to know.