Marc Webb Quotes

I think it's really important, when you're redefining a character [ Spider-Man], for the audience to experience things that they haven't experienced, from the ground up. I wanted to build a character. I feel like point of view is a really crucial thing in the story, and that you need to build up the emotional building blocks, so that you can experience all the other emotions in a very specific way, rather than just experiencing it in an intellectual way.

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

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.

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

When you get that opportunity to be honest and open with somebody, for the first time, and share things about yourself that you haven't been able to share before, that you might be scared of or ashamed about, that's really exhilarating, and I think that's something that people will really identify with.

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

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.

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

Nerds are running the world. Andrew Garfield made a movie [called "The Social Network"] about it. Nerds are no longer pariahs and knowing how to write computer code is longer a [mocked] quality. What was important in those early comics was this notion that Peter Parker is an outsider and how we define that in a contemporary context. That, I think, was one of the challenges for us - getting Peter Parker's outsider status to be current.

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.

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].

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.

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.

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

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

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