I Didn't Break Into Comics

It Didn't Take A Trauma To Make You Wear A Mask. It Didn't Take Your Parents Getting Shot...or Cosmic Rays Or A Power Ring...just The Perfect Combination Of Loneliness And Despair.

Cookbooks Are Almost A Substitution For A Lost Sense Of Culture. People Want Some Other Life Than The One They're Living, So They Buy A Cookbook With Pictures And Imagine Themselves As Part Of That Life.

What I Wanted To Do Was Drown Something Enormous, Like A Star Trek Or Star Wars Kind Of Space Opera-type Thing, But Actually Make It About Someone Who Was Just Married To The Wrong Guy, And That Guy Just Happens To Be This Amazing Dictator, And She Has To Get Her Kids As Far Away As Possible From This Guy. So Something That Could Almost Be A Tv Movie, If You'd Ground It And Set It In Wisconsin Or Something Like That, But To Give It This Enormous Setting.

The Big Thing Is It's A Domestic Drama. Everything Else In Science Fiction Tends To Be High-concept. Really For The Last 40 Years Or So I Think Sci-fi's Been A Little Cold And A Little Inhuman Quite Often - Certainly Since The 1980s - And I Really Wanted To Do Something That Almost Felt Like A Regular, Real-life Drama But Just Set It In A Sci-fi Setting. I Think The Best Stuff Is Always Like That.

Leaders Don't Ever "arrive." If We Ever Think We're Done, We Are Done!