I’m totally open to it being a movie or a television series or whatever, but truthfully, if no one wants to do it right, I’m also happy for ‘Ex Machina’ to only ever exist as...

Fuck the Bureau! Their entire outfit is half the size of the NYPD. I’ve got more officers who speak Arabic in one precinct that you guys have in the entire D.O.D.!

It doesn’t matter who started it or what it’s really about…war usually ends up sucking most for women. Even when we’re not fighting the battles ourselves, we somehow always end up with the lion’s share...

Print and digital comics will always coexist.

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It’s a form of self-help.

I never liked working on editorial-driven comics. I just didn’t see what was the point. They don’t pay well enough for me to write other people’s ideas.

When I wrote ‘Runaways,’ I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I’m a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are...

Well, at first I was thinking we could challenge them to a few rounds of Scattergories, but then I realized fighting would be way more emotionally satisfying.” -Buffy

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.

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it’s for the better on both counts, but I guess we’ll see.

I remember when I was a kid and I would go to the comic-book store, I would have no idea what was going on in that month’s issues. Sometimes I wouldn’t even know what comics...

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

There’s an old saying, Zill. Freedom can’t be given, only earned.

Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.

After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has...

I was embarrassingly well-versed in Marvel lore, so it was pretty easy to slip into that world. But really, already, by the time I’d started writing superhero comics, my dream was really to be writing...

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

What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there’s room in our hearts for so few.

For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.

I like animal sidekicks. They seem to be a pretty cool trope of post-apocalyptic fiction – just because if you’re going to have this lone protagonist, they’re going to need someone to talk to. Dogs...

I was only ever part of ‘Lost’ – a very small part of an extremely talented writers’ room, where as a writer, it’s sort of your job to sublimate your ego and work in the...

I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.

Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world.

I am a big theater fan. It’s mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.

I’ve always seen ‘Y’ as an unconventional romance between a boy and his protector. It was always about the last boy on Earth becoming the last man on Earth, and the women who made that...

My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.

You’re the one saying how vital offing these kids and grabbing their brat is to the war effort, right? Well, I’m telling you I need way more cash to do it right, so–Lying.How have you...

I don’t think I have discipline when it comes to anything.

In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.

It’s cool because I think ‘Ex Machina’ is a little bit under the radar, which is always when I do my best work – when I feel like no one’s paying attention.

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...

How is it possible that our parents lied to us?””Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You’re the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that…””Everythings...

I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.

I guess my journey with comics began with stuff like Spider-Man and Batman. I started off with mainstream superhero stuff, which I’ve never abandoned.

It’s interesting – I think superheroes get much more unfair derision. There are so many good superhero books being done. Science fiction is almost more reputable, I guess, at least a step up from poor...

Because it’s in and about New York City, I knew ‘Ex Machina’ was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

As much as I’m enjoying stuff out here in Hollywood, I will always think of myself as a comic-book writer who does film and television, not a film and TV writer who occasionally does comics.

All writing is the same: It’s just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That’s what I do.

There’s always that relief you feel when you’re working on your own series that you can actually make it to your planned ending and that your audience will still be there to support you –...

By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you’ve sort of signaled that everything is on the table.

Ciba: “I thought you were supposed to be some big brave war hero. What about that goddamn gold star you polish every night?”Natalya: “You know what this shiny piece of tin is, you fucking space...

Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.

I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.

Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess.””And everything awful used to be something good.

I love doing research. I’m a film-school geek.

Comics brought me to the dance. It’ll always be my first loyalty.

I don’t think anything connects with an audience as deeply as a long-form serialized drama, and much as I love television, I’ve always found a good ongoing comics series to be much more immersive.