I'm Afraid I Go Through The Same

I've Written So Many Things Over The Years That I Don't Want To Go Back To Being Just A Scriptwriter. I'm In What I Consider To Be The Enviable Position Of All I Have To Do Is Come Up With The Idea And Write An Outline That Makes It Seem Like It's A Viable Idea That Will Interest People, And Then Other People Write The Scripts -- And I Become The Executive Producer Or The Producer, Depending On How Much Involvement I Have, And I Get A Creative Credit And Then Move On To The Next Project.

I Want To Get That Same Feeling That Everybody Logging On To Our Website Is Sharing A Little Bit Of An Inside Joke, And The Rest Of The World Is Oblivious To It Although I Want To Have Most Of The World.

Once, I'd Written A Western Story, And One Of The Panels Was Just A Hand Holding A Six-shooter, And There Was A Puff Of Smoke Coming Out Of The Barrel, And A Straight Horizontal Line, Indicating The Trajectory Of The Bullet. So That Page Was Sent Back To Me From The Code Office, Saying That The Particular Panel Was Too Violent. I Asked Them What They Meant, And They Told Me--i Swear--"the Puff Of Smoke Is Too Big." Well, Of Course. So I Had The Artist Make The Smoke A Little Smaller, And The Youth Of America Was Saved.

I Wanted Them To Be Diverse. The Whole Underlying Principle Of The X-men Was To Try To Be An Anti-bigotry Story To Show There's Good In Every Person.

We Have Enough To Do Just Trying To Make Our Company What We Want It To Be. As Far As Whether I Would Like To Own Marvel, Sure, I'd Like To Own Marvel.