How do the two art forms differ—films and graphic novels?
In the latter, you can really get inside a character’s head. You can play with things like narrative and so on in movies, but I think that each medium has its strengths. If I have a story that’s going to work best as a novel, I’m going to write it as a novel. If somebody wants to try to make that into a movie, they’re welcome to. One of the beautiful things that comics do so well, Steven Lieber [Whiteout, Illustrator] did beautifully in this. One picture is literally worth a thousand words. Domenic Sena and the rest captured it so well in the movie. A single image of Antarctica tells you everything you need to know [Laughs]. You don’t want to be out there alone! Oddly, I think Whiteout adapts pretty effortlessly in terms of that main thrust. The graphic novel story is not a movie story. You could not shoot that story. Both Steve and I were very aware of that when Dark Castle came along and said, “We want to do this movie.” I said, “Knock yourselves out, and let’s see how you do it!” Th
