Don’t just be yourself. Be all of yourselves. Don’t just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

I love a straightforward character. I am the guy who loves Cyclops on the 'X-Men', because he is square.

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

Kristen Stewart is kind of captivating; she can just stare at stuff and it works because I still want to watch it.

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a narrative that is bigger than me, that is alive and I trust will work itself out.

Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.