I think that the dramas that you find in TV are actually a lot more interesting, typically, than what you find in cinema.

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.

Audiences can tell when you're being fake and they will eat you alive. But if you're doing something authentic they will connect to it and that can lead to commercial success.

When you get that opportunity to be honest and open with somebody, for the first time, and share things about yourself that you haven't been able to share before, that you might be scared of or ashamed about, that's really exhilarating, and I think that's something that people will really identify with.

It's very important to keep the emotions grounded, to keep the characters in some real place.

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

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