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" I think saying 'a John Hughes movie' is just shorthand for a lot of people to say 'a coming-of-age story,' because I think, when you're of a certain age, that's what John Hughes means to you. "

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" 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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" You go to the movies to be transported. That's the responsibility of filmmakers and the people that hire the filmmakers - to try and find new dreams we can all share together. "

" 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. "

" Talking to someone you have a crush on is as scary as fighting a super-villain. "

" I think the danger in trying to set too many things up or do too much world-building in a movie so soon is you forget to actually make a movie. "

" 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. "

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" There was a time when I just loved 'Indiana Jones' so much. I was in fourth or fifth grade, and I wore a fedora like that one to school every day. It was so dumb. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" Big movie or small movie, you make this thing, and then you show it to people, and you just hope they like it. You hope it works. "

" Every film you see in film school takes on a heightened importance in your life. "

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

" When you make a movie for a really low budget, it makes you really strict. You have to plan things down to the tiniest detail. "

" A great thing about kids is they're just themselves and can't help it a lot of the times. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sundance is like a genre. "

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" To me, the best comedies get a little dark, and the best thrillers are a little bit funny. So I'm not exactly sure where I draw the line between the two. "

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" 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. "

" 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 think it would be great to have more female directors making huge-budget movies. "

" 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. "

" I had a recurring stress dream since I was a kid 10 years old. My friend Travis is driving, and I'm afraid we're going to get in trouble. We keep passing people I recognize, and no one is doing anything. Travis keeps driving faster. I've had that dream a long time. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" My friends and I have always been trying to make movies, at every moment. We've tried so many different angles and approaches. But when it happens, it happens, and you just run with it. "

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

" I'd been writing my own coming-of-age story, and I got to take a lot of that energy and a lot of those moments and themes that I wanted to explore in a much smaller film and then apply them to 'Spider-Man: Homecoming.' "

" 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. "

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