There's a bigger universe at hand.

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.

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

In reality there are no limitations. They are vibrant and changeable to whatever form you want them to take to realise your goals.

I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair, and stars in her soul.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

Here's what I've found in Louisiana: The voters want to know what you believe, what you stand for, and what you plan to do, not what shade your skin is.

Praise is the rehearsal for our eternal song.

In the nights sometimes now he'd wake in the back and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun.

Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have images of themselves.

The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell.

I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past

I'm reteaming with the producers of 'Twilight' on an awesome script. It's very serious, dramatic and different for me. I'm excited to see what's next. I love all aspects of film and all genres.