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I think it would be great to have more female directors making huge-budget movies.
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I love 'River's Edge.'
Jon Watts
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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.
Jon Watts -
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.
Jon Watts -
Sundance is like a genre.
Jon Watts -
Talking to someone you have a crush on is as scary as fighting a super-villain.
Jon Watts -
'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.
Jon Watts -
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.
Jon Watts
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I think it helps if you have a clear vision of what you want.
Jon Watts -
I was definitely the kid who was the chicken, who didn't want to say the cuss words.
Jon Watts -
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.
Jon Watts -
What's nice about having kids close to the age they're playing is that you can actually capture awkwardness.
Jon Watts -
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.
Jon Watts -
People know the broad strokes of what it's like to be Spider-Man, but I wanted to really get into the details.
Jon Watts
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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.
Jon Watts -
I wouldn't say that I was a Spider-Man super fan.
Jon Watts -
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.'
Jon Watts -
By having Spider-Man exist in the same universe as the Guardians of the Galaxy... C'mon, that opens up so many possibilities!
Jon Watts -
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.
Jon Watts -
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.
Jon Watts