Usually, the biggest hang-up is the script. You could have a script done in six months that you love, or it could be like The Fantastic Four it's been almost 10 years.

We all wish we had super powers. We all wish we could do more than we can do.

When you work with people whom you like and you admire because they're so good at what they do, it doesn't feel like work. It's like you're playing.

I guess one person can make a difference.

I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record.

Life is never completely without its challenges.

No one has a perfect life. Everybody has something that he wishes was not the way it is.

Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today.

Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.

Everybody learns differently and everybody gets to a certain point from a different direction.

Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.

Of all the crap, crap, crappy nights I've ever had in the whole of my crap life. On a scale of one to 10, we're talking...a minus 6. And it's not like I even have very high standards.

Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme (...)".

I have demons you can't even imagine.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Stay away from trouble when you can.

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious.

The important thing is not to be defined by what others think of you.

I know politics; I know the media.