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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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" 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. "

" There are so many great John Hughes movies covering so many different genres. You can pull so much from him. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I liked writing with my friends and making our own little stories. Making a movie like 'Spider-Man' never even crossed my mind. "

" 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. "

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

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

" '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 didn't even think anyone would want to make 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to distribute 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to see 'Cop Car.' "

" I feel like what we've done in 'Homecoming' is really scratching the surface with Spider-Man. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" That's why people love Spider-Man: he's the most grounded, relatable of superheroes. "

" 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. "

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

" I wouldn't say that I was a Spider-Man super fan. "

" 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. "

" 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. "