I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.

Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span.

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.

If you are truly fearless as a performer, than you don't fear kids or dogs.

I'm not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don't think I was that way 10 years ago.

I did a series called Ned and Stacey for two years for Fox back in the 90s. I was writer on it as well as a producer, and it was very important to me that there were no contemporary references.