Jon Watts Quotes
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When you're writing something to direct, you just write exactly what you're going to do. You don't have to write it in a way for other people to understand or interpret.
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There are so many great John Hughes movies covering so many different genres. You can pull so much from him.
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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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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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The movie I made with my friends in my hometown based on a dream becomes a stepping stone to 'Spider-Man.' I wish I could say this was an amazing, calculated path but... It's so weird.
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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.'
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'Cop Car' was made with all of my friends. I wrote it with my best friend.
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Something I learned early on in my career is there's no use trying to fool anybody about what you want to do on a project where there are other people involved, rather than your own thing.
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I had no problem relating to Peter Parker. He feels like he might be in way over his head but is desperate to prove himself.
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I feel like what we've done in 'Homecoming' is really scratching the surface with Spider-Man.
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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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I think it helps if you have a clear vision of what you want.
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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.
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I think 'Badlands' is my favorite movie because it reminded me of where I was from.
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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.
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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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When you make a movie for a really low budget, it makes you really strict. You have to plan things down to the tiniest detail.
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I only realized I could potentially make movies after seeing 'Ed Wood.'
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Big movie or small movie, you make this thing, and then you show it to people, and you just hope they like it. You hope it works.
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My attitude is one movie at a time. I don't want to get ahead of myself.
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Talking to someone you have a crush on is as scary as fighting a super-villain.
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For me, there's a deeper genre appreciation for what a coming of age story can be about. To apply that to a superhero world, for me, that was very exciting.
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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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I think saying 'a John Hughes movie' is just shorthand for a lot of people to say 'a coming-of-age story,' because I think, when you're of a certain age, that's what John Hughes means to you.