It's fun to take a piece of formula and go someplace else with it and see what happens.

I think the purpose of deconstruction is to take something apart and see how it works. If you're not going to put it back together again and watch it go, what's the point?

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

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 attitude they have, what sort of role they play.

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

The Hulk is rage personified, just, "I don't like something. Break it." And that's a great concept for a seven- or eight-year-old.

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

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, but they had a protector.

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

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

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own.

The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination.

I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life.

A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.

Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.

I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the person who's playing the character in your film.

We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.

I never single out any one competitor. I treat all my rivals equally.