And there is no finer moment, when I sit in a screening, and the parents and the kids are all laughing at the same gag.
Going as far back as 'Dexter's Lab,' we've always had these sequences with no dialogue. The interesting thing is those sequences got the biggest reactions.
Stories are important, but I'm really into characters, and if you can give birth to a good one, that's true success.
Being a hardcore old-school comic book lover, it took me a while to accept the need for comic book movies.
And there is no finer moment, when I sit in a screening, and the parents and the kids are all laughing at the same gag.
With features, you're spending hundreds of millions of dollars on production and marketing, so everybody's panicked because you literally have an opening weekend to succeed.
One night I was sick and I watched the old black and white 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' And it freaked me out.
I used to work until two in the morning every night, then still get up at six. Now, I have to help my daughter with her homework, spend time with my wife.
Boarding for me, like in the days of 'Dexter,' was really hard, because I couldn't draw as well, and I had people around me who drew really well, so it was hard.
I grew up in the 1970s and early 1980s, loving comic books, and they were much cartoonier. And then everything became super dark and muscular and airbrushed, and I stopped collecting comics.
For me, I'm not a great wordsmith, and so maybe from lack of great dialogue writing, I thought it's easier and better to express a story through visuals.
I always refer to 'Blazing Saddles' or 'Young Frankenstein' as very much the kind of humor that I like to do.