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

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.

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.

When we access ourselves wrongly, we are mistaken about our abilities

The only valid rule for a work of art is that it be true to itself.

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself.

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

Everything begins in Paris.

People call Kong "a monster." He's not. There's nothing evil about Kong. He's just another creature who has opened up a little bit of his heart to Ann and it proves to be his undoing.

I'm not trying to prove anything.

Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.