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

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.

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.

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

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