Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.
I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.
I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
If you've got comic book fans and soap fans and country fans, I think you've hit the whole world. What else is there?
I'm used to comic books being reimagined, different takes on some of our beloved superheroes.
I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan.
Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.
I think that, if the world was a bit more like Comic-Con, we'd all be a little happier.
I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up.
I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting.
With superheroes and comics and fantasy and sci-fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, it's like people have said in endless magazines, it's the revenge of the geeks and all that. There's some truth in that.
I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.
It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.
I was a Charles Schulz kind of guy. I didn't read comics books. The Warner Bros. guys were great - Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng.
The problem for me is that 'Watchmen,' one of the great comics of all time, is a look at superheroes that has gone beyond the concept of or necessity for superheroes.
What interested me in doing 'Dragonball' was that it's a huge comic book series that has built a great fan base, and it's a great action movie!
The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.
I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.
When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.
Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.
