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

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.

There's a bigger universe at hand.

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

Relax, Recharge and Reflect. Sometimes it’s OK to do nothing.

The best relationships are simple. No lies, no cheating, simply two people that will always be there for each other nomatter what.

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

It's the role of the artist to pursue content

Each week, from a different point of view, you get another look at God, and that's exciting to me.

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.

The great style icons are tomboys

I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.

Love is our true destiny.

Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory.