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.

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

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].

I was a Marvel guy. I started reading comics when I was a kid.

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

When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.

Working with the actors, working with production designers, working with the creative people who surround the process is really fun, it's really inspiring and I take great pleasure in working with them. That's what's most fun about directing.