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Marc Preston Webb (born August 31, 1974) is an American music video, short film, and film director. He made his feature film directorial debut with the 2009 romantic comedy-drama (500) Days of Summer, and went on to direct the 2012 Spider-Man reboot The Amazing Spider-Man, its 2014 sequel, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and the 2017 drama films Gifted and The Only Living Boy in New York.

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For me, there were a few things in the Spider-Man comics that I thought were really interesting. There's this story about Peter's parents and where he came from, and I thought that it was really interesting to explore the emotional consequence of someone whose parents had left them, at a very young age.

Age, Consequence, Emotional, Interesting, Men, Things

When you dont inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

Define, Identity, Inherit

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.

Girl, Kid, Kids, Men, Parker, Trouble

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

Character, Emotions, Important, Keep, Real

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

Kind, Know, Like, Lovers, Movies, Rivals

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

Happiness, People, Population, Remembered, Saws

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.

Comics, Men, Peter, Quality, Rock, Rocks

There's a bigger universe at hand.

Bigger, Hand, Hands, Universe

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.

Creative, Fun, People, Take, Working

I think that if you make something that's relatable then people will attach themselves to it. You can express it in a lot of different ways but I feel like as long as you are consistent and fair with the audience they'll engage irrespective of how they self-identify. I think it just gets too complicated to track all those differences between demographics.

Audience, Differences, Make, Self, Think, Thinking

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

Earnestness, Ferment, Sentimentality

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

Cinema, Drama, Dramas, Interesting, Thinking, Typically

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

Film, Comic, Can Do, Bubbles, Thought

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.

Block, Character, Experienced, Men, Specific, Story

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

Comics, Guy, Kids, Reading

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

Place, Protective, Special, Sundance

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.

Belongs, Character, Cinematically, Men, Perennial, Thinking

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.

Book, Unique, Men, Cinema, Comic, Things