Top 40 Jon Watts Quotes

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.

Peter Parker is sort of our ground-level view of this Marvel universe. You know what it’s like to be in the penthouse with Tony Stark or have this god-like view like Thor, and I want to show what it’s like for regular people in this world.

I think it would be great to have more female directors making huge-budget movies.

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.

‘Clown’ started as a fake trailer for a nonexistent movie.

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.

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.

You get really scrappy when you’re making things for zero dollars, and you just have to keep thinking like that. It’s not like, ‘Oh, we now have a little bit more money, let’s do things differently.’ If you just keep boiling it down to the simplest possible way to make it, I think that always ends up being the best.

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.

I love ‘River’s Edge.’

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.

A great thing about kids is they’re just themselves and can’t help it a lot of the times.

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

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.

My friends and I have always been trying to make movies, at every moment. We’ve tried so many different angles and approaches. But when it happens, it happens, and you just run with it.

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

When you make a movie for a really low budget, it makes you really strict. You have to plan things down to the tiniest detail.

I love the movies. Everyone always says the same thing about the shared cultural experience, seeing things on the big screen, the church of the cinema… But on top of all that, as a filmmaker, I love having people be trapped in a movie theater, forcing them to watch what I made.

There was a time when I just loved ‘Indiana Jones’ so much. I was in fourth or fifth grade, and I wore a fedora like that one to school every day. It was so dumb.

What I love about movies is, no matter how many people are involved or how complicated the process is, at the end of the day, it’s just what’s inside of that frame. It’s going to be people sitting in a movie theater watching one shot at a time. And that’s my focus.

I’ve always been a very collaborative person, and I think ‘Cop Car’ and all the people I worked with who made it possible is a good example of that.

That’s why people love Spider-Man: he’s the most grounded, relatable of superheroes.

It’s all about making an experience. You go to the movies to see something you’ve never seen before. You want to get different people out there with different voices. So you see awesome huge spectacle or just a small unbelievable story you’ve never seen before.

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.’

I liked writing with my friends and making our own little stories. Making a movie like ‘Spider-Man’ never even crossed my mind.

Since being at Marvel, I’ve been watching everything over and over and over again, all the movies, and seeing how all the movies connect has been very satisfying for me.

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.

Talking to someone you have a crush on is as scary as fighting a super-villain.

I had no problem relating to Peter Parker. He feels like he might be in way over his head but is desperate to prove himself.

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.

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

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

I wouldn’t say that I was a Spider-Man super fan.

It’s just this feeling of when you’re a kid, you have these ideas about the world and about people in your life that don’t always hold up as you get older and start to realise that things are more complex than you might’ve realised. That’s always a big part of a coming-of-age story.

Something I learned early on in my career is there’s no use trying to fool anybody about what you want to do on a project where there are other people involved, rather than your own thing.

‘The Onion’ is an amazing place to work because it’s a bunch of really smart, collaborative writers who aren’t afraid to try crazy things.

I have a tendency to check out when the stakes are too high in a movie.

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.

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

You go to the movies to be transported. That’s the responsibility of filmmakers and the people that hire the filmmakers – to try and find new dreams we can all share together.