136 Quotes by James Gunn

We live in a world where everybody’s supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so cynical.

I really like people who can do both drama and comedy and not some like middle of the road do both drama and comedy. I’m not talking about some guy who does these bland dramedies all the time. I’m talking about people that have done heavy drama and who have done heavy comedy.

I hope I’m still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.

Thinking that everything is going to come together in a perfect way is not necessarily the way it’s going to happen.

But if you, as an independent filmmaker or a ‘serious’ filmmaker, think you put more love into your characters than the Russo Brothers do Captain America, or Joss Whedon does the Hulk, or I do a talking raccoon, you are simply mistaken.

These things are never easy, and you take them to your grave.

The writer’s genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer’s only stuff for sale.

I don’t really like movies that are all one or the other. It’s really about the play between both of them. Now that I’ve said that, there’s actually lots of movies that I like that are one or the other but it’s just not for me as a filmmaker.

Every movie I’ve ever made has just kind of come together.