It's such a thrilling part about being in a relationship at a young age, and all your feelings are apocalyptic, all your emotions are so huge.

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.

Your job is to abide in my pastureEating sweet grass and drinking pure water, And sharing both with others—That is a lamb’s business.

No one is satisfied with his fortune or dissatisfied with his intellect.

We live in the world when we love it.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

Sometimes it's good to fall down to see who will pick you up.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.

Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

I confess, I'm not the biggest fan of Twilight.