Kid ... Comics Will Break Your Heart.

I Wasn't The Kind Of Student That Pratt Was Looking For. They Wanted Patient People Who Would Work On Something Forever. I Didn't Want To Work On Any Project Forever. I Intended To Get Things Done.

My Parents Were Immigrants. And The Place For All Immigrants Was The Factories. They Were The Source Of Cheap Labor.

Of Course, Mothers Were Very Conventional, Everything Was Very Conventional. You Had To Have Approval.

I Was Being Brought Up On Peasant Stories; My Mother Came From Europe And She'd Been A Peasant And That Was The Area Where The Frankensteins And The Draculas Came From And It Was Entertainment For The People. Nobody Had Tv, And That Was The Way Peasants Would Entertain Themselves, By Telling These Stories.

A Character To Me Can't Be Contrived. I Don't Like To Contrive Characters. They Have To Have An Element Of Truth.