Director

To me, the best of 'Jack' is when we have a very good, but small idea, executed to the nines.

I've always felt that kids are a lot smarter than we've given them credit for, but we've never given them a chance to figure things out as they're watching television.

I've always been in love with samurais, that kind of classic idea about a hero who has a sword with an intense skill and is very stoic and doesn't talk much.

I watching this Disney documentary, and I'm not Disney, but I was thinking about Mickey Mouse and he became an icon. Walt moved onto other things but he made him exist. I was thinking, 'Wow, is 'Samurai Jack' my 'Mickey Mouse?' Am I stupid to stop working on it?'

I've done a lot of dance sequences because I like them; I like to animate dancing because it's fun and visual.

The funny thing is, I was not a fan of horror when I was a kid. I was scared to watch scary movies. And then along came 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,' and 'Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy.' And I like those films because they made scary funny, and it was kind of ironic that I ended up doing the 'Hotel' movies.

To me, storytelling is a mystery. Especially when you're directing.

Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.

You can't have a beauty scene for beauty's sake.

Akira Kurosawa, David Lean and Alfred Hitchcock were the main inspirations for 'Samurai Jack,' along with a lot of '70s cinema.

Humor is the hardest thing to do. Action is so much easier, because you're just trying to establish the mood, and a pacing, and a rhythm, and an energy. Where, in humor, comedy is so subjective.

Being funny is very complex.

I read comics because of the art.

To me, storytelling is a mystery. Especially when you're directing.

I think the fate of 'Star Wars' is everlasting, which is great.

I'm not sure comics sustain mortgage, and the house, and three kids.

I'm very in the now; I don't like to look back a lot.

Well I grew up following most of the major titles like 'Fantastic Four,' 'Spider-Man,' 'Avengers,' etc. But I had also a lot of love for the smaller titles like 'Master of Kung Fu,' 'Black Panther,' 'The Defenders,' 'Inhumans,' and of course Power-Man and Iron Fist.'

You can't have a beauty scene for beauty's sake.

I love to have contrast.