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" 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. "

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

" Comics don't work without the visuals, obviously. "

" I tend to see - socially, I don't tend to be myself in a male role. I don't know any other way to put it. "

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

" 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? "

" Your ability to name every single variation of Kryptonite and every first issue in which it appears is a great pop quiz skill, but is not a great writing skill, all right? So just because you can do that doesn't mean you know how to write. "

" I come from a prose background. I come from short story background, and that led me into novels. "

" 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. "

" I've always had a thing for theme parks and their less-glorious cousins, amusement parks, the carnival midway, and others of such ilk. "

" I'm not a huge Lovecraft fan as far as that goes; I think there are some stories of his that are really quite wonderful, but for the most part, I have great difficulties with his prose - and the more you know about the man, the harder it is to separate him from the work in many ways. "

" 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'm a Caucasian American Jew. These are all things that make up who I am. "

" Superman is precisely what we should be teaching our children. Superman inspires us to our best. "

" I am the product of Denny O'Neil in many ways, I carry forth a lot of what Denny instilled in me. "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" Every writer is going to end up drawing from their own experiences in one way or another. "

" What we want to see is stories that are going to be honest stories about the characters that we're telling them about. "

" I think when you're working with a character that another writer is acting as - for lack of a better word - custodian of, your obligation as a professional is to not do anything that violates that 'primary' take. "

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

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

" Every writer has characters that they become attached to and that they feel very strongly about. "

" I'm a fan of genre in the abstract, but at best, perhaps all we can really say when we talk about genre is that we're talking about an umbrella that covers a kind of story with certain elements. "

" It's funny because you know the novel process: you get the drafts, you get the galley, and then you get the galley proofs. You have opportunities to change things all along. But the further along in the process you go, the more careful you have to be in making those changes, and the smaller the changes have to be. "

" The stories that are out and the things that have been published are a sample of my interests. There are genres and sub-genres that I haven't waded into but have wanted to, or have waded into in other places but never actually written. "

" I like the 'Keystone Kops' storyline. It didn't actually go quite the way I wanted to, but it was another great way to show how different life was in these two different corners of the DCU, being on the ground in these different areas. "

" All the sudden, I was part of the 'No Man's Land' thing, and there was a bundle of core writers for that, but somewhere along the line, I became the go-to guy after that initial arc. "

" 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. "

" If Portland can truly have a true comics show that doesn't become a media show but retains its focus on comics, I think it's going to serve the city well. If this becomes a big show, it's going to bring in a lot of money for the city. "