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" I think it helps if you have a clear vision of what you want. "
Jon Watts
You
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" I liked writing with my friends and making our own little stories. Making a movie like 'Spider-Man' never even crossed my mind. "
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" 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. "
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" Something I learned early on in my career is there's no use trying to fool anybody about what you want to do on a project where there are other people involved, rather than your own thing. "
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" There's this great panel - I forget what the actual comic is - of Spider-Man in the rain holding an umbrella and eating some Chinese takeout. It's like, that's the essence of 'Spider-Man.' "
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Forget
Great
" What I love about movies is, no matter how many people are involved or how complicated the process is, at the end of the day, it's just what's inside of that frame. It's going to be people sitting in a movie theater watching one shot at a time. And that's my focus. "
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Time
" 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. "
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Want
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" '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. "
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Try
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" I was going to be a chemical engineer - I was a science nerd - that was the plan. I secretly applied to USC and NYU and got a scholarship to go to NYU based on a dumb animated short I made. It was a huge shock to me and my family. "
Jon Watts
Science
Dumb
Plan
" 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. "
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Start
World
Man
" I think it would be great to have more female directors making huge-budget movies. "
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Great
Think
Movies
" 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. "
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Start
World
Story
" I loved the idea of Spider-Man as a kid, and I loved the Todd MacFarlane run in the 1990s, and the first Raimi movies were released when I was in film school. Those were big. "
Jon Watts
Film
School
Run
" '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. "
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Girl
Age
Reflection
" Sundance is like a genre. "
Jon Watts
Sundance
Like
Genre
" 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. "
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Comedy
People
Tension
" I only realized I could potentially make movies after seeing 'Ed Wood.' "
Jon Watts
Movies
Seeing
Make
" 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
Universe
Possibilities
Same
" You get really scrappy when you're making things for zero dollars, and you just have to keep thinking like that. It's not like, 'Oh, we now have a little bit more money, let's do things differently.' If you just keep boiling it down to the simplest possible way to make it, I think that always ends up being the best. "
Jon Watts
Think
Down
Thinking
" What's nice about having kids close to the age they're playing is that you can actually capture awkwardness. "
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Nice
Kids
Age
" The movie I made with my friends in my hometown based on a dream becomes a stepping stone to 'Spider-Man.' I wish I could say this was an amazing, calculated path but... It's so weird. "
Jon Watts
Path
Amazing
Dream
" 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. "
Jon Watts
You
Never
Someone
" I just remember having the President's Fitness Challenge when I was in elementary school and middle school. You had to do different activities, and at the end of it, I think you got a little pin or a badge. I was like, 'How do we incorporate Captain America into high school?' You would have the 'Captain America Fitness Challenge.' "
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School
Think
Challenge
" 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. "
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Clown
Always
Action
" I feel like what we've done in 'Homecoming' is really scratching the surface with Spider-Man. "
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Surface
Feel
Like
" I have a tendency to check out when the stakes are too high in a movie. "
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Check
Movie
High
" I had no problem relating to Peter Parker. He feels like he might be in way over his head but is desperate to prove himself. "
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Over
Way
Prove
" Have you ever seen the video of the kid with the Spider-Man pinata? He just sets the stick down, walks over, and gives the Spider-Man pinata a hug. He doesn't want to hurt his Spider-Man. He loves him! And I think that's a universal feeling towards Spider-Man. You just can't help but love him. "
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Hurt
Feeling
Help
" A great thing about kids is they're just themselves and can't help it a lot of the times. "
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Kids
Great
Lot
" Every film you see in film school takes on a heightened importance in your life. "
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Your
You
Film
" I've always pre-vized my movies, just on my own. Even when it was, like, zero-budget things, I used this programme to do storyboards because I can't draw that well. "
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My Own
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