74 Quotes by Marc Guggenheim

I always think the audience sometimes wants what you're not giving them.

In part, it's so difficult to come up with something original, to come up with a character nowadays. If you created a globetrotting adventurer, he'd be compared to Indiana Jones. If you created a super spy, he'd be compared to James Bond.

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.

I'm a very big believer that the reason you've seen this huge surge in superheroes both on television and in film is...part of it of course is zeitgeist. There's no denying that there's a huge appetite on the part of the audience in both TV and film for these kind of adventures.

I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers.

When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written.

You can save the city, but having the city be in jeopardy is one thing and having the people you care about be in jeopardy is another.

Time has a certain current to it, and it wants to flow in a certain direction.

There should be nothing I can't live without.