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

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.

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

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.

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

I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.

I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.