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.

I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.

There's a bigger universe at hand.

There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really liked. He has this chip on his shoulder.

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

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.