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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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].