Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show – it’s called ‘Da Vinci’s Demons‘ for a reason, and it’s not just metaphorical.

I honestly love nothing better than digging into a really good serialized show, whether it’s ‘Breaking Bad‘ or ‘Game of Thrones‘ or ‘Justified.’

I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn’t good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He’d sometimes destroy what he was working on.

Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you‘ll see better movie adaptations.

I did three or four weeks of work on ‘Godzilla;’ it wasn’t a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is ‘script doctoring,’ is what I did on it.

Superman has evolved continually in the comic books over the course of 75 years. He couldn’t even fly for years in the original comic books. Kryptonite wasn’t added until the ’60s. All sorts of things like this. If a character is going to remain vital, he does have to change with the times.

I love comic books. I was weaned on them, so it’s not like it’s a stretch for me, but I have other interests, as well.

I’m a big comic book geek and I’ve been reading comic books since pretty much since I was five or six in 1971 or something like that. So, I mean, I read it all and there’s certainly a lot of different iterations of Superman that I personally have enjoyed more than others.

‘Batman Begins‘ came out and it was really successful, and it had gritty naturalism. And suddenly… I can’t tell you how many movies I was pitched where it was, ‘We want to do what you did with ‘Batman’ but with ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,’ or whatever.

I’ve long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths.

I think Wonder Woman is a very difficult character to crack. More difficult than Superman, who is also more difficult than Batman. Also, a lot of people in Hollywood believe that it’s hard to do a big action movie with a female lead. I happen to disagree with that.

It took a while for the first ‘Blade‘ to get made, and Marvel decided they liked the Whistler character so much, when Blade guest starred on the ‘Spider-Man’ cartoon, they put Whistler on the cartoon, and the movie hadn’t come out yet.

I believe when you’re writing film or television, you can’t rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative of the film.

There’s a theory in gameplay, particularly in first person shooters, that sometimes you don’t want to have that much of a character because then it destroys the experience of the player being that character.

The thing about ‘Batman Begins’ is that he’s a character that people thought they knew a lot about, and yet you’re able to identify the spirit in his life where even in the comic books it’s not explored that much.

I did three or four weeks of work on ‘Godzilla’ it wasn’t a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is ‘script doctoring,’ is what I did on it.

I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I’m a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It’s the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we’re constantly revising science, we’re constantly revising history.

I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn’t look like us or even be humanoid, like ‘E.T.’

‘Call Of Duty‘ initially cut its teeth on World War II simulation stuff, and then we gradually advanced to the end of the Cold War, but you can’t keep doing the same thing over and over again. And I think that because ‘Call Of Duty‘ cut its teeth on presenting ‘realism,’ in quotes… verisimilitude.

During my career I’ve enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences.

I think there’s really only been one successful video game adaptation, and that was probably Tomb Raider. Whether or not you thought it was a good movie, it was successful financially.

I think if we ever encountered aliens, even communicating with them would be really, really difficult.

Da Vinci always seemed like the prototype Tony Stark to me.

As the CG in motion capture made it look realistic, it put more of an onus on the game makers to make the dialogue they’re saying more realistic. It doesn’t matter what they say when they’re 8-bits, but if they look almost photo-real, it matters. More and more, the games industry is realising that.

Superman is not as innately cool as Batman.

I am an artist, and I understand the pros and cons of being an artist, and the pressures of being an artist, and how much being an artist can be torture to people around you; you know, you friends and your family and how material you can be, and how it’s hard to take criticism and all the things like that.

There’s been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it’s ‘E.T.,’ ‘Starman,’ or other movies about trying to connect with humanity; it struck me that’s what a Superman story really is.

What Christopher Nolan and I have done with ‘Superman’ is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the ‘Batman’ trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in.