watchmen

"I talked to Terry Gilliam in the 80s, and he asked me how I would make Watchmen into a film. I said: 'Well actually, Terry, if anybody asked me, I would have said 'I wouldn't.' And I think that Terry [who aborted his attempted adaptation of the book] eventually came to agree with me. There are things that we did with Watchmen that could only work in a comic, and were indeed designed to show off things that other media can't."