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" A character wandering around asking, 'Who am I?' isn't, in and of itself, a story I'm interested in telling. "

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" The worst thing that can happen for a writer is for a writer to start believing their own press. I think the industry, and the comics industry in particular, is littered with the bodies of writers who believed their own press. And you can see the moment they did, and then the work nosedives. "

" Character is made up of a variety of different things. One of those elements is gender. "

" There are still plenty of people who want to burn me at the stake for my Wonder Woman run. And I can't really blame them, you know? That was my take on the character, and when people are invested in the characters, they see them very clearly and in the way they like. "

" To me, the joy you're going to get in a 'Punisher' story is watching him punish incredibly wicked people. Now, if you can add to that an emotional content, wonderful. "

" When I was in third grade, I would run home - literally run home from school - and if I could make it in time, I could get home and the put the TV on in time to catch the answering machine message at the start of 'The Rockford Files.' "

" Heroes are defined by their villains - Batman is nothing if he doesn't have Two-Face. "

" I think Batman has the Wolverine problem. I think he's overexposed. "

" The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old. "

" The goal with 'Alpha' was to run towards the cliches and then to break through them, and that doesn't change depending on the medium. "

" I think that Batman loses his efficacy and mythology if he's got too many people around him. That's what the Justice League is for, you know what I mean? "

" The goal of 'Revelations' is that once it's all done and finished, and you've read all of it, it is its own story. "

" The writer's curse is that the more you fall in love with the work you're doing, the more I think it shows. "

" I just know that if you make a Superman movie you can't take kids to, you've done something wrong. "

" There are a lot of people in the medium who came and got into the industry and work in the industry, and these are people who were raised on comics and loved comics. Comics are their religion. To such an extent, that they don't know anything else. "

" Every character needs an adversary - one who is both challenging and a contrast for the hero. The best adversaries reveal something about the character they're contrasting. "

" My college senior thesis was going to be on the American private investigator. "

" Like nightclubs and sporting events, entry into an amusement park is a permission to become someone else. We come for the experience and to relish it. "

" We forget when we're all grown up. 16 was a long time ago. It's hard to remember how freakin' difficult it is as 16! Life is not easy, and you're trying to figure stuff out. "

" I think there are certain questions that get asked in comics over and over again, and people want definitive answers, but I feel like there shouldn't be definitive answers. "

" I write characters. Some of those characters are women. "

" When there's a clear vision, and you've got the creative teams working toward that goal, each on their own, it can then come together quite elegantly at the endpoint. "

" There are so many great characters because one of the things that makes Batman fantastic is that Batman is tragic. I've said this elsewhere; I've said it over and over again, but the beauty of the character is that he's a Don Quixote. "

" When I was in high school, I started writing a serial novel, longhand, set in the Arthurian mythos, and influenced not incidentally by Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The Mists of Avalon.' "

" I met one of my best resources because I cold-called the local FBI office one day early in my career with questions. The agent who took the call knew someone who knew someone who was ex-Army, trained in personal protection. The resulting introduction was one of the best, most enduring friendships I've ever enjoyed. "

" Good fiction can both entertain and light up those dark corners where nice people don't want to go. "

" Punisher is scary; he should be scary. "

" Speaking as a father, there is no rulebook, and you don't know how to do it. You just do the best you can. "

" I think if you look back at some of the stuff that we broadly label as the crime 'ouvre,' there are certainly elements of the supernatural at work. "

" If someone arrives, fully functional yet a tabula rasa, how does their environment influence, educate, even mold them? And if that is a nurture question, then where does that character's nature fit in? How does that manifest? "