When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. If we really want to escape this war, we have to stop bringing it with us.

A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't.

There people who are happy that they made a powerful weapon, there are people disappointed that they cannot make a weapon that's comparable to other people's weapons, and there are people who are saddened that both weapons are pointing at everyone, including their creators.

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

I never like to talk about my own politics, but whether you're left, right or center, the 2008 race was definitely good drama.

Marvel and DC are my divorced mom and dad. DC is my stable, loving, nurturing mom. Marvel is my weird dad who lives in a condo and doesn’t know how to cook, but he’ll let you stay up until three in the morning watching RoboCop 2.