"As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances."

"Kids will tease you for just about anything."

"I've always thought that I'm kind of a cross between a young Bill Clinton and Lyle Lovett. And I just want to say I'm proud of that. Those are two good looking guys."

"I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly."

"I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!"

"You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job."

"The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market."

"The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'"