In fact, we actually listen to fans all the time. It's helpful because you want to get a sense of what people are looking for and what they disagree with.

You always go by your gut. That's the best you can do. You go by what you feel, and you say yes or no based on what it inspires in you.

When you're a kid and you're a superhero lover, the holy trinity is Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, so to be able to take any of those and play with it is a huge joy.

When you start a script you aim to hit a note you know you want to end in general.

I do believe that people go to the movies - for one reason or another - they go to the movies to have an experience.

I love the opportunity to tell the story about the characters through the music.

An emotional story is an emotional story no matter how big or small it is.

Please not yet. Those are the three eternal words. Please not yet.

China is bearing the environmental cost for much of the world because China is the factory of the world.

Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan [for 2011].

The Asia-Pacific Partnership is a climate suicide pact. It is playing Russian roulette with six bullets in your gun.

Just live in the moment and not be afraid to try things out and make mistakes.

My philosophy is: Everybody needs to look out for everybody else.

Anyway, even if she's sugarcoating my good points, I appreciate it. Frankly, I could use a little sugarcoating.

Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.

The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.