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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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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" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

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

" People know the broad strokes of what it's like to be Spider-Man, but I wanted to really get into the details. "

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