If Spider-Man is your ground level superhero, I wanted to come up with a ground-level villain. I wanted to figure out if I could turn a regular guy into a super-villain.

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We've seen that origin story before, here's Spider-Man, he's a kid, let's take him on an adventure ... it's all part of trying to show people something new.

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They wanted to give a different perspective on this world of superheroes, like a regular guy's perspective, that was one of the things that made Spider-Man so special, homecoming.

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We've seen a lot of superheroes dealing with responsibility and burden of their powers ... but if you have a 15-year-old kid with super powers, definitely there's going to be some funny moments.

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I love 'River's Edge.' by Jon Watts

I love 'River's Edge.'

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I think it helps if you have a clear vision of what you want. by Jon Watts

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

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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.

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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.

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That's why people love Spider-Man: he's the most grounded, relata... by Jon Watts

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

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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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I think every kid is a 'Spider-Man' fan at some point. by Jon Watts

I think every kid is a 'Spider-Man' fan at some point.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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There's this great panel - I forget what the actual comic is - of Spider-Man in the rain holding an umbrella and eating some Chinese takeout. It's like, that's the essence of 'Spider-Man.'

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It's just this feeling of when you're a kid, you have these ideas about the world and about people in your life that don't always hold up as you get older and start to realise that things are more complex than you might've realised. That's always a big part of a coming-of-age story.

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I feel like what we've done in 'Homecoming' is really scratching... by Jon Watts

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

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I wouldn't say that I was a Spider-Man super fan. by Jon Watts

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

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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.

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Peter Parker is sort of our ground-level view of this Marvel universe. You know what it's like to be in the penthouse with Tony Stark or have this god-like view like Thor, and I want to show what it's like for regular people in this world.

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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.

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