Jon Watts Quotes

Jon Watts

Profession : Director

Birth : June 28, 1981

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.

Jon Watts

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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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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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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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

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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My attitude is one movie at a time. I don't want to get ahead of myself.

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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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I think 'Badlands' is my favorite movie because it reminded me of where I was from.

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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 had a recurring stress dream since I was a kid 10 years old. My friend Travis is driving, and I'm afraid we're going to get in trouble. We keep passing people I recognize, and no one is doing anything. Travis keeps driving faster. I've had that dream a long time.

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I only realized I could potentially make movies after seeing 'Ed Wood.'

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'Clown' started as a fake trailer for a nonexistent movie.

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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 love 'River's Edge.'

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I have a tendency to check out when the stakes are too high in a 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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A great thing about kids is they're just themselves and can't help it a lot of the times.

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It's really cool to do, like, a 'Harry Potter' evolution because you can really take your time with the character development: really, like, don't rush past the implications of great power and great responsibility.

Jon Watts

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.

Jon Watts