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

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

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.

I think it's really important, when you're redefining a character [ Spider-Man], for the audience to experience things that they haven't experienced, from the ground up. I wanted to build a character. I feel like point of view is a really crucial thing in the story, and that you need to build up the emotional building blocks, so that you can experience all the other emotions in a very specific way, rather than just experiencing it in an intellectual way.

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.

One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you're doing something creative. You can be cheesy... or you can be lame.

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