Leaders don't ever "arrive." If we ever think we're done, we are done!
The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.
The highest form of leadership is one in which a leader raises up other leaders - not as an accident, but as a result of conscious effort.
Ever since 1980, sci-fi has generally been more Bladerunner than Star Wars. People talk about Star Wars being the most influential movie of all time and creating the blockbuster along with Jaws and that sort of thing, but really there's not been a space opera that anyone can go and see.
Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.
I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.
I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.
When that character and the X-Force appeared, they took the comic world by storm. You have to look at those numbers. And you see that that isn't Rob Liefeld's only creation. There's all these other things, like Cable and Domino. There's so many things that actually could be fascinating onscreen and unlike anything you've ever seen before onscreen. So I think Fox is in a really nice position where they've got something that feels as wide and different as the Marvel Universe.
The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.
You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.
There's almost a universe as big as the Marvel Universe with X-Men. I mean, Deadpool is something I think everybody was taken surprise by, except for the people who read the comic book.
Others control our opportunities, we control our readiness.
She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4.
Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.
I just trust the people involved. Marvel and DC for the last 16 years - is that 90 percent of the time it's incredible top talent. Like, this is what makes it different from the pre-2000 superhero movies. I would say, except Tim Burton and Richard Donner, it was generally, comic book movies were done by guys who weren't that into the material and people who didn't really respect the stuff. But as everything, whether it's Wolverine, X-Men, Avengers, Batman, all these things, it's just been done by top-tier people. I have total confidence that they'll continue that tradition of being great.
Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.
At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.
Jesus, man. Why do people want to be Paris Hilton and nobody wants to be Spider-Man?
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.
It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a power ring...Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.
The heart is a muscle, and you strengthen muscles by using them. The more I lead with my heart, the stronger it gets.
Batman: a force of chaos in my world of perfect order. The dark side of the Soviet dream. Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents, they said he was a ghost. A walking dead man. A symbol of rebellion that would never fade as long as the system survived. Anarchy in black.
I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.
I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.
