Was there anything you wanted but couldn get – like two extra mechanical arms for Doc Ock?
[Laughs] There was nothing that was reasonable that I wanted and couldn’t get. You know, I always wanted to do things differently later, but I had already spent the money so I had to stick with the decision, like with the arms. Overall it was great because I could make this large studio picture and still make my own personal drama about the character and his love story at the centre of it – very much as I would for an independent picture. That’s why I’m so happy. Because if Peter Parker, without Spider-Man, had been an independent picture – just a love story with Mary Jane Watson – I don’t know that I would have changed anything. I never felt like I was just making this generic picture for a mass audience. In fact, I think the audience is smarter than any individual. There’s some collective intelligence that grows and increases like bees in a colony. They laugh sooner and pick things up sooner, so you’ve got to be more on guard and be more intelligent as a filmmaker. There are a lot of
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