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

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.

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.

People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places.

Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.

You have to taste a culture to understand it.

It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.