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].

It's really hard to find just a simple character-driven drama, outside of a genre, that was available to direct, except for on TV.

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

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

When you dont inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

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