Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going and keep trying.

Comedy is a meritocracy. If you are funny, you are there. If you are not, you are out.

I don't think it's a mistake to put every great idea into the first movie, because I've always said there won't be a second movie if you go 'we'll hold back these ideas for another one.

When we bring the filmmaker, we bring somebody to help us elevate the material with those things, to help us do something different with all of those resources at their disposal.

I'm not a huge comic book fan, but I'm a closet fan of certain Marvel heroes, two of those being Iron Man, and the other being Guardians of the Galaxy, which I'm looking forward to.

Filmmakers are anxious about what other people are working on.

We have audiences that seem to be embracing whether they've heard of the characters or not.

I love female heroes too and would love to bring many more to the big screen in the future.

I'm not a scientist. I just read articles that are interesting and that capture my imagination, but I think there's a reason why there's so much faith placed in science.

Let's use that to make as interesting and different and unique a story as possible and not just stay with the same thing.' And this movie is certainly the embodiment of that.

I think those with knowledge of the comics may expect things that will not be happening in the movies. Those who don't know what has happened in the comics will be shocked at what we do.

Life will always get in the way of living.

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.

I'll take Shadowhunter, then. Because from what I've experienced of vampires, you mostly suck. No pun intended.

I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

If someone puts his trust in God in a matter, let him not argue with his brother about it.

Much more than memoir; it's history.

I'm used to really struggling and facing a hard time to get things going, until I'm comfortable at all with them.

Writing was not my medium. I preferred to do video.