Jon Watts Quotes

Jon Watts

Profession : Director

Birth : June 28, 1981

What's nice about having kids close to the age they're playing is that you can actually capture awkwardness.

Jon Watts

Every film you see in film school takes on a heightened importance in your life.

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 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.

Jon Watts

To me, the best comedies get a little dark, and the best thrillers are a little bit funny. So I'm not exactly sure where I draw the line between the two.

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

There's this great panel - I forget what the actual comic is - of Spider-Man in the rain holding an umbrella and eating some Chinese takeout. It's like, that's the essence of 'Spider-Man.'

Jon Watts

I think the danger in trying to set too many things up or do too much world-building in a movie so soon is you forget to actually make a movie.

Jon Watts