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

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.

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

Sundance is a really special place. They're very protective of movies, especially lower-budget movies.

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.

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

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.