I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know?

When you dont inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.

It's very important to keep the emotions grounded, to keep the characters in some real place.

Audiences can tell when you're being fake and they will eat you alive. But if you're doing something authentic they will connect to it and that can lead to commercial success.

Sundance is a really special place. They're very protective of movies, especially lower-budget movies.

There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really liked. He has this chip on his shoulder.

When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.

Something you can do in a comic that you can't do in a film is that you can have thought bubbles.

There's a bigger universe at hand.

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

The only way to find art is to lose touch with reality.

but the effort of setting the table, heating up the food and then washing the dishes seemed to him tonight a superhuman one.

Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.

When I was 20, I wanted to be famous and win a Grammy and have people respect and love me.

In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.

Over all, many of society's values are a cesspool.

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.

I give people permission to be kids again.