American - Director | June 28, 1981 -
I feel like what we've done in 'Homecoming' is really scratching the surface with Spider-Man.
Jon Watts
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I loved the idea of Spider-Man as a kid, and I loved the Todd MacFarlane run in the 1990s, and the first Raimi movies were released when I was in film school. Those were big.
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What I love about movies is, no matter how many people are involved or how complicated the process is, at the end of the day, it's just what's inside of that frame. It's going to be people sitting in a movie theater watching one shot at a time. And that's my focus.
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I think it would be great to have more female directors making huge-budget movies.
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There are so many great John Hughes movies covering so many different genres. You can pull so much from him.
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I had no problem relating to Peter Parker. He feels like he might be in way over his head but is desperate to prove himself.
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I'd been writing my own coming-of-age story, and I got to take a lot of that energy and a lot of those moments and themes that I wanted to explore in a much smaller film and then apply them to 'Spider-Man: Homecoming.'
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It doesn't matter whose idea it is or where it came from or when it arrived in the process. The best idea is the best idea no matter what.
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'The Onion' is an amazing place to work because it's a bunch of really smart, collaborative writers who aren't afraid to try crazy things.
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It's such an amazing team working with both Marvel and Sony, and I have the support of just the very best technicians in the world.
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I think saying 'a John Hughes movie' is just shorthand for a lot of people to say 'a coming-of-age story,' because I think, when you're of a certain age, that's what John Hughes means to you.
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There's so many great coming-of-age movies to steal from, and I feel like I just tried to steal from them all equally.
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