When you dont inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know?

There's a bigger universe at hand.

It's really hard to find just a simple character-driven drama, outside of a genre, that was available to direct, except for on TV.

Sundance is a really special place. They're very protective of movies, especially lower-budget movies.

For me, there were a few things in the Spider-Man comics that I thought were really interesting. There's this story about Peter's parents and where he came from, and I thought that it was really interesting to explore the emotional consequence of someone whose parents had left them, at a very young age.

We're creating a different universe with different rules and a different tone and different villains. We were very careful to honor the iconography of Spider-Man, but we wanted to tell it in a new and different way [in the film].