Film Quotes by Jon Watts

14 Film quotes by Jon Watts

Jon Watts’s 14 statements give a quick look at how he balances spectacle with character in big‑budget films. Each line is a straightforward glimpse into his creative priorities, making this a useful primer for anyone interested in his approach.

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

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

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

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Big movie or small movie, you make this thing, and then you show it to people, and you just hope they like…

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I love Cameron Crowe's 'Say Anything' and 'Almost Famous.' I think those are really great coming-of-age movies.

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

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I think the danger in trying to set too many things up or do too much world-building in a movie so soon…

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It's all about making an experience. You go to the movies to see something you've never seen before. You want to get…

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When you're writing something to direct, you just write exactly what you're going to do. You don't have to write it in…

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On an independent film where you're working with just a handful of people, you don't have to explain anything because no one…

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My friends and I have always been trying to make movies, at every moment. We've tried so many different angles and approaches.…

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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…

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You go to the movies to be transported. That's the responsibility of filmmakers and the people that hire the filmmakers - to…

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I loved the idea of Spider-Man as a kid, and I loved the Todd MacFarlane run in the 1990s, and the first…

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

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

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I think it helps if you have a clear vision of what you want.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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

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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,…

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

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