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.

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 think that if you make something that's relatable then people will attach themselves to it. You can express it in a lot of different ways but I feel like as long as you are consistent and fair with the audience they'll engage irrespective of how they self-identify. I think it just gets too complicated to track all those differences between demographics.

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

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

I think that Spider-Man is a part of our culture. He's a perennial character. He's something that's constantly reexamined and there are so many versions of him in the comics that it was something that I thought that we could do cinematically. He belongs on the big screen.

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.