I Am As Resilient As The Steel

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.

Pretty Much All Comic-book People, Like All Hollywood People, For The Most Part, Are Pretty Liberal. I Think Especially Uk Writers. Alan Moore Is Probably The Most Radical Guy You'll Ever Meet. I Grew Up Loving Those Guys, So My Heroes, As A Kid, Were Radical Cartoonists, Essentially. I Couldn't Help But - I Grew Up In A Left-wing Household. But I Do Think It's Fun, Writing Right-wing Characters. I've Found It Interesting, Just As A Writer, To Get Inside Their Heads And Make Them Likeable.

I Just Think Adding Superheroes To Something Instantly Makes It More Interesting. I Have A Friend Who Says Every Movie Should Either Be A Spider-man Movie, Or At Least Have Spider-man In It. I Thought It Was Such A Brilliant Quote. It Kind Of Is True, In A Weird Way.

Maybe In This Star Wars World Maybe Subconsciously I Was Preparing Myself. But I've Just Found All Of My Ideas I've Been Coming Up With Are Big Sci-fi Things, And I Wanted To Do A Big Epic, A Big Space Opera, And This Is It. This Is Mine.

Anytime Something Becomes A Success In This Way You Always Get Imitators. I'm An Imitator Of The Guys I Love. I Imitate People Like Frank Miller, Who Is A Huge Inspiration To Me.