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.

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].

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

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

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

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