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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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].
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.
real character important
It's very important to keep the emotions grounded, to keep the characters in some real place.