What really matters is not how well a character fits a definition, but how strongly he or she resonates. Characters with strong, resonant ideas at th….

Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldnt like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They had very little freedom….

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one..

I think the Hulk has always appealed very strongly to much younger readers than Spider-Man, because Spider-Man is an adolescent character, and the Hu….

If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it..

"Superhero" is a term that's been borrowed in order to say "big and larger than life and loud and active and dumb." And I don't think that's a useful….

The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors..

I think James Bond is a spy. He's not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies "comic-book movies.".

I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think..

I don't view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party..

The metaphor is the story, not the character..

If I won the lottery tomorrow - which would be a real trick, since I haven't entered - and was independently wealthy for the rest of my life, I'd wri….

I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect..

I've always been positive about superheroes..

Youve got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what theyre like, what kind of attit….

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories..

Maybe I had a 'secret identity,' but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we thi….

It strikes me that the only reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight of disassembly, is to find out how it….

At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character….

I think that the superhero-as-metaphor involves a superhero being some sort of intellectual, emotional, or other such concept writ large. But I don't….

I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used to express the kind of metaph….