Marc Webb
Marc Webb
Marc Preston Webbis an American music video, short film, and film director. He made his feature film directorial debut with the 2009 romantic comedy-dramaDays of Summer and went on to direct the 2012 Spider-Man reboot The Amazing Spider-Man and its sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth31 August 1974
CityBloomington, IN
CountryUnited States of America
identity
When you dont inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.
rivals lovers kind
I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know?
greater skepticism virtue
Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.
eventually great happily loses stories
That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.
age relationship thrilling
It's such a thrilling part about being in a relationship at a young age, and all your feelings are apocalyptic, all your emotions are so huge.
people saws population
I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.
life
One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you're doing something creative. You can be cheesy... or you can be lame.
running thinking important
Geeks are running the world, anyone who's seen The Social Network knows the dynamic has shifted, but what I think is iconic and timeless about Peter Parker is that he's an outsider, on the outside looking in, and that was something I thought was very important to protect.
girl kids men
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.
men different-universes creating
We're creating a different universe with different rules and a different tone and different villains. We were very careful to honor the iconography of Spider-Man, but we wanted to tell it in a new and different way [in the film].
men rocks quality
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.
running writing thinking
Nerds are running the world. Andrew Garfield made a movie [called “The Social Network”] about it. Nerds are no longer pariahs and knowing how to write computer code is longer a [mocked] quality. What was important in those early comics was this notion that Peter Parker is an outsider and how we define that in a contemporary context. That, I think, was one of the challenges for us — getting Peter Parker’s outsider status to be current.
men emotional interesting
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.
book unique men
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.