If You Feel The Need

The Ultimate [act] That Would Be The Taboo, To Show How Bad Some Villain Is, Was To Have Somebody Being Raped, You Know? I Don't Really Think It Matters. It's The Same As, Like, A Decapitation. It's Just A Horrible Act To Show That Somebody's A Bad Guy.

One Of The Things That Made Star Wars Work Was The Kids Didn't Know Who Their Dad Was.

The Success [of The X-men], I Think, Is For Two Reasons. The First Is That, Creatively, The Book Was Close To Perfect ... But The Other Reason Is That It Was A Book About Being Different In A Culture Where, For The First Time In The West, Being Different Wasn't Just Accepted, But Was Also Fashionable. I Don't Think It's A Coincidence That Gay Rights, Black Rights, The Empowerment Of Women And Political Correctness All Happened Over Those Twenty Years And A Book About Outsiders Trying To Be Accepted Was Almost The Poster-boy For This Era In American Culture.

Writers Are The Most Terrible Kleptomaniacs.

Artists, No Matter How Good Their Intentions, Are Always Slower Than They Think.