“When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine.”

“When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.”

“There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.”

“I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.”

“I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.”

“Individuals score points, but teams win games.”

“It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.”

“The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.”