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

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.

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.

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].

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

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

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