American - Director | June 28, 1981 -
When we were kids, we would just go walking: just walk in a direction and hope that you were gonna find a crashed alien spaceship or buried pirate's treasure or something like that. You never did. You'd find, like, a coyote skeleton, something like that. That was the most exciting thing you'd ever find.
Jon Watts
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For me, there's a deeper genre appreciation for what a coming of age story can be about. To apply that to a superhero world, for me, that was very exciting.
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What's nice about having kids close to the age they're playing is that you can actually capture awkwardness.
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Every film you see in film school takes on a heightened importance in your life.
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There's a lot of similarities, I think, between a thriller and a comedy because it's all about tension. It's about building tension and setups and payoffs and misdirections and surprising people and sort of pushing the boundary.
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To me, the best comedies get a little dark, and the best thrillers are a little bit funny. So I'm not exactly sure where I draw the line between the two.
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People know the broad strokes of what it's like to be Spider-Man, but I wanted to really get into the details.
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There's this great panel - I forget what the actual comic is - of Spider-Man in the rain holding an umbrella and eating some Chinese takeout. It's like, that's the essence of 'Spider-Man.'
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I think the danger in trying to set too many things up or do too much world-building in a movie so soon is you forget to actually make a movie.
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