I firmly believe that you can't manufacture chemistry with anyone, let alone a kid.

I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?

I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.

It's a lot of working out, you know, and you don't get to eat all the things you wanna eat.

But if you do, then it's a high class problem to have. And if you do, you're the architect of that problem. There's no one else to blame but yourself. You've kept doing the same kinds of movies and that's what they want to see.

Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.

It's just that... working on Green Lantern, I saw how difficult it is to make that concept palatable, and how confused it all can be when you don't really know exactly where you're going with it or you don't really know how to access that world properly - that world comic book fans have been accessing for decades and falling in love with.