136 Quotes by James Gunn

My brain has always been wired in such a way that I’d rather communicate to a smaller audience who really get turned on by what I do than meet a wider audience and give them milk.

It’s definitely not the character who it is in the comics, I’ll say that much.

I like to plan everything out and know exactly what we’re doing. It’s always important to me to work with a cast and a crew that not only I respect their talent but I really like them as people.

There’s no way of getting away from the noises of the city when the noises of the city are in your head.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

When you're on an independent film, you have a lot of great people there who are telling really true and authentic stories. But you also have a lot of con artists and people who think they can do something that they can't.

I think that one of the things that drives me in telling stories, and art in general, is finding the beautiful in a big mass of ugly.

Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending on the state of the world.

I can't be told life is beautiful through a normal positive thinking book or a Hallmark movie; that language doesn't work for me.