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

I think that Spider-Man is a part of our culture. He's a perennial character. He's something that's constantly reexamined and there are so many versions of him in the comics that it was something that I thought that we could do cinematically. He belongs on the big screen.

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.

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.

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.