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There are so many great John Hughes movies covering so many different genres. You can pull so much from him.

~Jon Watts

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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.

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It doesn't matter whose idea it is or where it came from or when it arrived in the process. The best idea is the best idea no matter what.

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'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.

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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.

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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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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: June 28th, 1981

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