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

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

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

Something you can do in a comic that you can't do in a film is that you can have thought bubbles.

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.

Nerds are running the world. Andrew Garfield made a movie [called “The Social Network”] about it. Nerds are no longer pariahs and knowing how to write computer code is longer a [mocked] quality. What was important in those early comics was this notion that Peter Parker is an outsider and how we define that in a contemporary context. That, I think, was one of the challenges for us — getting Peter Parker’s outsider status to be current.