Marc Preston Webb is an American music video, short film, and film director. He made his feature film directorial debut with the 2009 romantic comedy-drama Days of Summer and went on to direct the 2012 Spider-Man reboot The Amazing Spider-Man.
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Filmmaker
Movies
The Only Living Boy in New York, Gifted, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Amazing Spider-Man, 500 Days of Summer
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Trademark
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Use of quirky humor in music videos and movies
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Quote
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When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.
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That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.
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One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you're doing something creative. You can be cheesy... or you can be lame.
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It's such a thrilling part about being in a relationship at a young age, and all your feelings are apocalyptic, all your emotions are so huge.
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I was a Marvel guy. I started reading comics when I was a kid.
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I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know?
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I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.
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Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.
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Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.
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'Batman' was scary.
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There's a bigger universe at hand.
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Fact
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Filmed much of the 3 Doors Down video in Madison, Wisconsin and at West High school which he attended as a student.
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Directed Blaqk Audio's video for Stiff Kittens, however the video was never released and is referred to as "the mysterious Stiff Kittens video" by band member Jade Puget (who is also in AFI). [2007]
$18 Million
