When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.

Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it's hard to disassociate from the contemporary realities of those places.

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

I'd never really thought about it before, but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it.

The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.

When you borrow money, you should always think how you're going to pay it back.

I worked at a Web development shop and other start-ups and eventually started a project called Ludicorp, which built an online game. We soon ran out of money, and Flickr was the last-ditch effort to save the company. It quickly became a very unstoppable juggernaut.