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
earnestness sentimentality
Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.
character men thinking
I think that Spider-Man is a part of our culture. He's a perennial character. He's something that's constantly reexamined and there are so many versions of him in the comics that it was something that I thought that we could do cinematically. He belongs on the big screen.
opportunity thinking people
When you get that opportunity to be honest and open with somebody, for the first time, and share things about yourself that you haven't been able to share before, that you might be scared of or ashamed about, that's really exhilarating, and I think that's something that people will really identify with.
block character men
I think it's really important, when you're redefining a character [ Spider-Man], for the audience to experience things that they haven't experienced, from the ground up. I wanted to build a character. I feel like point of view is a really crucial thing in the story, and that you need to build up the emotional building blocks, so that you can experience all the other emotions in a very specific way, rather than just experiencing it in an intellectual way.
tennis balls pieces
When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.
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.
fun people creative
Working with the actors, working with production designers, working with the creative people who surround the process is really fun, it's really inspiring and I take great pleasure in working with them. That's what's most fun about directing.
film comic can-do
Something you can do in a comic that you can't do in a film is that you can have thought bubbles.
fake alive audience
Audiences can tell when you're being fake and they will eat you alive. But if you're doing something authentic they will connect to it and that can lead to commercial success.
drama thinking interesting
I think that the dramas that you find in TV are actually a lot more interesting, typically, than what you find in cinema.
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.
hands bigger universe
There's a bigger universe at hand.
drama character simple
It's really hard to find just a simple character-driven drama, outside of a genre, that was available to direct, except for on TV.
philosophy creative choices
One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when youre doing something creative. You can be cheesy... or you can be lame.