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" I love the movies. Everyone always says the same thing about the shared cultural experience, seeing things on the big screen, the church of the cinema... But on top of all that, as a filmmaker, I love having people be trapped in a movie theater, forcing them to watch what I made. "

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" By having Spider-Man exist in the same universe as the Guardians of the Galaxy... C'mon, that opens up so many possibilities! "

Jon Watts

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Possibilities

Same

" When you're getting to do what you want to do, you just assume you're going to hit a point where someone is like, 'No, you can't do that.' Strangely, that never happened. "

" There's a lot of similarities, I think, between a thriller and a comedy because it's all about tension. It's about building tension and setups and payoffs and misdirections and surprising people and sort of pushing the boundary. "

" 'The Onion' is an amazing place to work because it's a bunch of really smart, collaborative writers who aren't afraid to try crazy things. "

" It's all about making an experience. You go to the movies to see something you've never seen before. You want to get different people out there with different voices. So you see awesome huge spectacle or just a small unbelievable story you've never seen before. "

" What's nice about having kids close to the age they're playing is that you can actually capture awkwardness. "

" It doesn't matter whose idea it is or where it came from or when it arrived in the process. The best idea is the best idea no matter what. "

" I wouldn't say I was a massive comic fan growing up, just because I now know people that really are, and I would never claim to be in that same category. "

" We always talked about the sequel to 'Clown' being called 'Clowns,' like an 'Alien'/'Aliens' sorta thing, where you have multiple clowns. And just really make it, in the way that 'Aliens' was an action movie, do the same thing. Action-horror. That would be great. "

" It's really cool to do, like, a 'Harry Potter' evolution because you can really take your time with the character development: really, like, don't rush past the implications of great power and great responsibility. "

" I've always been a very collaborative person, and I think 'Cop Car' and all the people I worked with who made it possible is a good example of that. "

" When we were kids, we would just go walking: just walk in a direction and hope that you were gonna find a crashed alien spaceship or buried pirate's treasure or something like that. You never did. You'd find, like, a coyote skeleton, something like that. That was the most exciting thing you'd ever find. "

" There's so many great coming-of-age movies to steal from, and I feel like I just tried to steal from them all equally. "

" Since being at Marvel, I've been watching everything over and over and over again, all the movies, and seeing how all the movies connect has been very satisfying for me. "

Jon Watts

Watching

Everything

" If Spider-Man is your ground level superhero, I wanted to come up with a ground-level villain. I wanted to figure out if I could turn a regular guy into a super-villain. "

Jon Watts

Superhero

Ground

" For me, there's a deeper genre appreciation for what a coming of age story can be about. To apply that to a superhero world, for me, that was very exciting. "

Jon Watts

Age

World

" I love Cameron Crowe's 'Say Anything' and 'Almost Famous.' I think those are really great coming-of-age movies. "

" My attitude is one movie at a time. I don't want to get ahead of myself. "

" I love 'River's Edge.' "

" It's such an amazing team working with both Marvel and Sony, and I have the support of just the very best technicians in the world. "

" I think it helps if you have a clear vision of what you want. "

" When you're writing something to direct, you just write exactly what you're going to do. You don't have to write it in a way for other people to understand or interpret. "

" I was definitely the kid who was the chicken, who didn't want to say the cuss words. "

" Film is a temporal medium as much as it is a visual medium: you're playing with time, and you don't have that ability where someone can pause at home. That's such a fundamental part of what makes filmmaking exciting to me. I don't really have as much interest in any other medium. I just like the control. "

Jon Watts

You

Control

" I only realized I could potentially make movies after seeing 'Ed Wood.' "

" It's just this feeling of when you're a kid, you have these ideas about the world and about people in your life that don't always hold up as you get older and start to realise that things are more complex than you might've realised. That's always a big part of a coming-of-age story. "

" 'Welcome to the Dollhouse' is great. Even though it's about a girl in middle school, to me, that feels like the most honest reflection of what being a kid around that age feels like. "

" I have a tendency to check out when the stakes are too high in a movie. "

" If you think about it, now that Spider-Man is in the Marvel universe, that means that Peter Parker was probably, like, eight years old when he saw Tony on TV telling the world he's Iron Man. And when you start thinking about it as a whole world like that, it gets really fascinating. "

" On an independent film where you're working with just a handful of people, you don't have to explain anything because no one cares. You can do whatever you want. There's no one there to tell you not to do it. "