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

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].

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

I think one of the things about Peter Parker that is so great, and what has made him and Spider-Man last so long is he is a kid that we all feel connected to, he's not an alien, he's not a millionaire, he's just this kid that has trouble asking girls out.

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.

There's a bigger universe at hand.

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.