“Normally there are three kinds of roles or tropes for us. We're either...” — Adam Pearson Quote

“Normally there are three kinds of roles or tropes for us. We're either the villain because I have a disfigurement and I want to kill Batman or James Bond, or the victim like 'woe is me,' or the hero, because I have a disability but do regular stuff I'm somehow braver than the next guy. It's lazy writing.”

“You can get bogged down in, 'It's not fair. Why is life so cruel?' It doesn't solve anything.”

“Elephant Man - the name given to Joseph Merrick - was the moniker that haunted my childhood.”

“One of my favorite things, coming of age, reading comics, was these ideologies and these philosophies of these characters. Seeing those on the page really represented in amazing ways some of my favorite 'Batman' comics like 'The Killing Joke' or 'The Dark Knight Returns.'”

“Batman had a certain speech pattern that I established because he was always Sherlock Holmes-ian. He was Basil Rathbone. In other words, he was always musing about something.”

“I'd have all these crazy sort of 'who would win battles' with my friends who were big fans of other comic book characters, and I'd always find a way for Batman to win. It was deep for me, man.”