I Thought It Would Be Great To

I Have Always Tried To Have A Message, Not To Be A Preacher, But A Message That Shows It's Better To Be A Good Guy Than A Bad Guy, And I Try To Make It Clear That Doing The Right Thing Is More Attractive Than Not.

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.

People Like Stories That Are Bigger Than Life, About Characters With Unusual Powers. And When You Get All The Characters In The Zodiac, It's So Colorful, And It's So Rich In Different Attitudes That The Characters Have.

Some Artists, Such As Jack Kirby, Need No Plot At All. I Mean I'll Just Say To Jack, "let's Let The Next Villain Be Dr. Doom" ... Or I May Not Even Say That. He May Tell Me. And Then He Goes Home And Does It. He's So Good At Plots, I'm Sure He's A Thousand Times Better Than I. He Just Makes Up The Plots For These Stories. All I Do Is A Little Editing ... I May Tell Him That He's Gone Too Far In One Direction Or Another. Of Course, Occasionally I'll Give Him A Plot, But We're Practically Both The Writers On The Things.

The Comic Book Industry Has Turned Into The Wellspring For All Of These Movies That Are All Based On The Comic Books.