Leaders Don't Ever "arrive." If

The Success [of The X-men], I Think, Is For Two Reasons. The First Is That, Creatively, The Book Was Close To Perfect ... But The Other Reason Is That It Was A Book About Being Different In A Culture Where, For The First Time In The West, Being Different Wasn't Just Accepted, But Was Also Fashionable. I Don't Think It's A Coincidence That Gay Rights, Black Rights, The Empowerment Of Women And Political Correctness All Happened Over Those Twenty Years And A Book About Outsiders Trying To Be Accepted Was Almost The Poster-boy For This Era In American Culture.

Anytime Something Becomes A Success In This Way You Always Get Imitators. I'm An Imitator Of The Guys I Love. I Imitate People Like Frank Miller, Who Is A Huge Inspiration To Me.

Maybe In This Star Wars World Maybe Subconsciously I Was Preparing Myself. But I've Just Found All Of My Ideas I've Been Coming Up With Are Big Sci-fi Things, And I Wanted To Do A Big Epic, A Big Space Opera, And This Is It. This Is Mine.

Many Of Our Leadership Practices Have Gone From Being Tried And True To Being Tired And Tarnished.

Ever Since 1980, Sci-fi Has Generally Been More Bladerunner Than Star Wars. People Talk About Star Wars Being The Most Influential Movie Of All Time And Creating The Blockbuster Along With Jaws And That Sort Of Thing, But Really There's Not Been A Space Opera That Anyone Can Go And See.