I think it's really important, when you're redefining a character [ Spider-Man], for the audience to experience things that they haven't experienced, from the ground up. I wanted to build a character. I feel like point of view is a really crucial thing in the story, and that you need to build up the emotional building blocks, so that you can experience all the other emotions in a very specific way, rather than just experiencing it in an intellectual way.

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

There's a bigger universe at hand.

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

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

Romance: That's one of the things that makes Spider-Man really unique, in terms of the comic books. There is a tender, romantic quality to it. And certainly, that's something that's always fascinated me about the cinema: good romance.

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