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.

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.

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.

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

God was just. She held on to that knowledge and the hope that the day of justice would eventually arrive.

You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.

Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.

This is our world. Aye, there's more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there's all this joy, Kit. There's all this lovely, lovely light.

I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.

The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

The most you get is what you ask for.

I never want anyone to be sitting where I'm sitting and to have lost their son, because I can never get Luke back.