stonefieldofdreams:

Emma: My favorite scene is [Peter and Gwen] reuniting after a year, in Union Square. That’s pretty definitive of what Gwen and Peter do for each other. No matter how much hardship is happening in their lives, they tend to bring out the best in each other … and they just have some undefinable quality of magic between them, and love. That night and that scene.

Andrew: As if my body was taking over. That was exactly how survival goes. My brain just goes, [robotically:] ‘I have to be with that person’.

Matt Tolmach: Can I tell you something about that scene? We were in the middle of Union Square […] and this scene was being shot and Marc made a decision, and a very smart one, to allow Andrew and Emma to have the freedom to play with the scene. We were huddled around these little heaters in our protective tents and everything and all of a sudden you just forgot everything. There was a magical quality to what happened that night in that scene. It’s not a coincidence, I guess, that it shows up that way in the movie. There was something really incredible about these two actors, and that scene and what it meant in the movie. It was sort of spectacular.

Avi Arad: When you have a great actress, and you give her the proper material, now you have a real scene.

Marc Webb: In terms of things that were fun to play, that scene that started off in Union Square, I remember I got a deep case of the feels when I was watching those guys do that scene. They hadn’t seen each other in a year, and it just felt so innocent and so pure. It was so weirdly simple, but I think it gives the relationship a really palpable foundation. [to Andrew Garfield:] I don’t know what it was like to shoot for you guys…