"It all comes down to the great stories. The colorful and interesting characters that people can invest themselves in. The ones that they want to follow. That is the most critical thing for me. The second thing is, you have to have a filmmaker who gets it. Who has a passion for a character. Who has a vision for a character. Someone who really knows how to execute that vision. It's a hard thing to find. And its essential. The third thing is, and I have been in the trenches of Hollywood for thirty-five years, day by day, trying to make them understand this...Comic books and superheroes are not synonymous."

"There's a standard Internet phenomenon of a Sneer Club of people who enjoy getting together and picking on designated targets. Sneer Clubs attract people with high Dark Triad characteristics, which is…"

"From a Dataist perspective, we may interpret the entire human species as a single data-processing system, with individual humans serving as its chips. If so, we can also understand the whole of histor…"

"I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years."

"People like John Oliver don’t understand the real issue here. If he did, his segment would be on why countries need borders. He could have dissected the idea itself. That would have at least been resp…"