America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so many American movies when I was a kid. I was brought up on American films.

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.

I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.

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.

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

I'm right next to two beautiful women right now, so I'm going to sit right back down.

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