Alan Moore

For the record, Alan Moore has not softened his view on Hollywood or its plan to bring his classic graphic novel "Watchmen" -- a dystopian epic that deconstructs the superhero genre -- to the screen this spring. "I find film in its modern form to be quite bullying," Moore told me during an hourlong phone call from his home in England. "It spoon-feeds us, which has the effect of watering down our collective cultural imagination.