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

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

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.

There's a bigger universe at hand.

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.

Working with the actors, working with production designers, working with the creative people who surround the process is really fun, it's really inspiring and I take great pleasure in working with them. That's what's most fun about directing.

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.