Marc Webb Quotes

#1. Geeks are running the world, anyone who's seen The Social Network knows the dynamic has shifted, but what I think is iconic and timeless about Peter Parker is that he's an outsider, on the outside looking in, and that was something I thought was very important to protect.

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#2. It's really hard to find just a simple character-driven drama, outside of a genre, that was available to direct, except for on TV.

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#3. Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

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#4. Audiences can tell when you're being fake and they will eat you alive. But if you're doing something authentic they will connect to it and that can lead to commercial success.

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#5. Working with the actors, working with production designers, working with the creative people who surround the process is really fun, it's really inspiring and I take great pleasure in working with them. That's what's most fun about directing.

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#6. Romance: That's one of the things that makes Spider-Man really unique, in terms of the comic books. There is a tender, romantic quality to it. And certainly, that's something that's always fascinated me about the cinema: good romance.

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#7. I think that Spider-Man is a part of our culture. He's a perennial character. He's something that's constantly reexamined and there are so many versions of him in the comics that it was something that I thought that we could do cinematically. He belongs on the big screen.

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#8. I think that the dramas that you find in TV are actually a lot more interesting, typically, than what you find in cinema.

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#9. I think one of the things about Peter Parker that is so great, and what has made him and Spider-Man last so long is he is a kid that we all feel connected to, he's not an alien, he's not a millionaire, he's just this kid that has trouble asking girls out.

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#10. Sundance is a really special place. They're very protective of movies, especially lower-budget movies.

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#11. We're creating a different universe with different rules and a different tone and different villains. We were very careful to honor the iconography of Spider-Man, but we wanted to tell it in a new and different way [in the film].

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#12. One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you're doing something creative. You can be cheesy ... or you can be lame.

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#13. Something you can do in a comic that you can't do in a film is that you can have thought bubbles.

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#14. When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.

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#15. It's very important to keep the emotions grounded, to keep the characters in some real place.

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#16. I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know?

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#17. I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.

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#18. It's such a thrilling part about being in a relationship at a young age, and all your feelings are apocalyptic, all your emotions are so huge.

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#19. That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.

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#20. Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.

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#21. I was a Marvel guy. I started reading comics when I was a kid.

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#22. When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

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#23. There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really liked. He has this chip on his shoulder.

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