I'd been writing my own coming-of-age story, and I got to take a lot of that energy and a lot of those moments and themes that I wanted to explore in a much smaller film and then apply them to 'Spider-Man: Homecoming.'

I wouldn't say I was a massive comic fan growing up, just because I now know people that really are, and I would never claim to be in that same category.

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

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.

As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times.

I was surprised how supportive my family and friends were in my coming out, and it gave and still gives me hope.

My family and I participate in 'Cycle for Survival.' it was started by a friend of my wife's who lost his wife to a rare form of cancer.

Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost my father too, it was too easy for me to glimpse a future point where I alone was the keeper of not just my own childhood memories, but of my family lore.