When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.

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.

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.

What await you

I apologise, your Highness. Murder can be a painful business.

There is legitimate pleasure, which is not wrong, but we are not to become so preoccupied with its activities that it takes the place of God.

I have another question: Hillary Clinton, lying to the American people about her selfish, awful judgment in making our secrets vulnerable.Guilty or not guilty?

The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe.

Now, as I've gotten older I've been able to write more quickly. Sometimes I get in the space of something and I can do a lot in a day.

When we started, we knew the show was going to be hit or miss, and we needed to find a core audience to really make us survive. And I think we've been able to do that.

Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly.