I grew up on the old EC comic books before the Comics Code in North American and with all sort of good-natured fun. I never had nightmares I think because all of the old horror stuff that I was exposed to was well meaning in a certain sense.

I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

I grew up on EC comic books and 'Tales From the Crypt,' which were all loaded with humor, bad jokes, and puns. I can have that kind of fun and make these comic book movies but, at the same time, talk about things I want to talk about - whether it's consumerism or the Bush administration or war.

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.