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

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.

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

There's a bigger universe at hand.

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].

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.