Jon Watts Quotes
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There's a lot of similarities, I think, between a thriller and a comedy because it's all about tension. It's about building tension and setups and payoffs and misdirections and surprising people and sort of pushing the boundary.
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Talking to someone you have a crush on is as scary as fighting a super-villain.
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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.
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I love 'River's Edge.'
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What's nice about having kids close to the age they're playing is that you can actually capture awkwardness.
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I love the movies. Everyone always says the same thing about the shared cultural experience, seeing things on the big screen, the church of the cinema... But on top of all that, as a filmmaker, I love having people be trapped in a movie theater, forcing them to watch what I made.
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Sundance is like a genre.
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I was going to be a chemical engineer - I was a science nerd - that was the plan. I secretly applied to USC and NYU and got a scholarship to go to NYU based on a dumb animated short I made. It was a huge shock to me and my family.
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'Welcome to the Dollhouse' is great. Even though it's about a girl in middle school, to me, that feels like the most honest reflection of what being a kid around that age feels like.
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I was definitely the kid who was the chicken, who didn't want to say the cuss words.
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When you're getting to do what you want to do, you just assume you're going to hit a point where someone is like, 'No, you can't do that.' Strangely, that never happened.
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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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People know the broad strokes of what it's like to be Spider-Man, but I wanted to really get into the details.
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I've always been a very collaborative person, and I think 'Cop Car' and all the people I worked with who made it possible is a good example of that.
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It doesn't matter whose idea it is or where it came from or when it arrived in the process. The best idea is the best idea no matter what.
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We always talked about the sequel to 'Clown' being called 'Clowns,' like an 'Alien'/'Aliens' sorta thing, where you have multiple clowns. And just really make it, in the way that 'Aliens' was an action movie, do the same thing. Action-horror. That would be great.
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By having Spider-Man exist in the same universe as the Guardians of the Galaxy... C'mon, that opens up so many possibilities!
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'Clown' started as a fake trailer for a nonexistent movie.
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I didn't even think anyone would want to make 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to distribute 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to see 'Cop Car.'
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I've always pre-vized my movies, just on my own. Even when it was, like, zero-budget things, I used this programme to do storyboards because I can't draw that well.