As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.

Hate doesn't end hate. Love ends hate.

I've been obsessed with Michael B. Jordan since The Wire. He's so charismatic and talented. It'd be even better—we'd have interracial bisexuality!

I do just want to be an actor. The thing I get out of it is actually doing the job and inhabiting the world and the role - and I mean that genuinely. That's what I'm in it for.

That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

When I first saw Emma Stone, it was like I woke up.

If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.

After a while, you crave pajamas and a shaved head.

That night, Hallie was relieved when Linda Soares, the town librarian who'd spent years trying to impress Nick with her low-cut shirts and book recommendations, joined them for dinner.

Associating with winners may not make you a winner, but associating with losers will definitely not make you one.

Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.

There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.

Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

What do dogs do on their day off?; Can't lie around – that's their job!

The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

The road to success just might be your driveway.