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.

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.

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

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

When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.

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

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