If Shakespeare And Michelangelo Were Alive Today,

I'm Lucky. I Don't Have To Produce The Whole Movie. What I've Been Doing Is Just Coming Up With Ideas For Movies. I Write A Concept, A Treatment, An Outline, And If I Sell That To A Studio, Then Someone Else Does The Actual Production And I Go On To Another Project, Although I Keep The Title Executive Producer.

Life Is Never Completely Without Its Challenges.

The Cliché I Tried To Avoid Was I Hated "teenage Sidekicks." I Always Figured If I Were A Superhero, There's No Way On God's Earth That I'm Gonna Pal Around With Some Teenager. So My Publisher Insisted I Have A Teenager In The Series, Because They Always Felt Teenagers Won't Read The Books Unless There's A Teenager In The Story; Which Is Nonsense.

You Remember When Tobey Maguire Was First Selected, Most Of The Fans Were Angry. They Felt, What Kind Of A Guy Is That For A Superhero? Nobody Thought It Was A Good Idea. Yet He Turned Out To Be Great. The People At Marvel Who Do These Things Are Really Pretty Smart. If They Chose This Guy, He'll Probably Be Terrific.

Wives Should Be Kissed - Not Heard.