My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man.

I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren't always great.

Hate doesn't end hate. Love ends hate.

I think above all else [The Social Network] is a love story. And something of a tragic one, I suppose.

Peter (Parker) is not that evolved. Peter wants to tell the world he's a good guy: ' Like me, I'm nice.' He's a 19 year-old kid. He's a kid struggling with being misunderstood. We've all been misunderstood. That's universal too. I like being Peter.

Obviously making Peter Parker suddenly bisexual or gay wouldn't really make logical or dramatic sense. It was a hypothetical kind of question about the nature of these comic book characters and the nature of this particular character, and whether sexuality, race, any of those things makes any difference to the character of Peter Parker.