As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of good at the end of it..

That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid..

The beauty with comics - and also the risk - is it is a far smaller number of voices. It's the writer and the artist and to a lesser extent the edito….

What I need more in my culture and in my life right now is hope, and so I tend to write to that. I'll always end up bending more toward optimism..

I don't worry about budget, at least not early on. I discovered that if you start worrying about budget, then you'll get half of whatever you're tryi….

Studios are mercurial kind of creatures. A lot of the times getting a movie out can be as much luck as anything else..