Top 33 Joe Russo Quotes

Marvel is a very streamlined studio.

We want to empower artists and filmmakers to forge new paths.

We tend to intensely scout an area and then use our imaginations to make the best use of the geography.

As filmmakers, we love ambitious storytelling; it’s one of the reasons we pushed to do ‘Civil War.’ We want to be as ambitious in scope as we possibly can.

I’ve had emotional experiences in VR that I haven’t been able to have in two-dimensional experiences.

With a character called Captain , you have to address the concept of who he is because his identity is tied to his country.

What’s interesting about the fans is, fans are very fickle. They all have their own opinion.

We love being told good stories, and we love telling good stories, and all of our energy and our effort and our thought and our passion goes into telling the best story that we can.

We grew up near a cinematheque in Cleveland, so we were very influenced by international cinema, the French New Wave, Italian neo-realists.

The template that ‘Infinity War’ is following is a very different, complex template because you’ve never seen so many characters in one film. It obviously has to be a multi-perspective film.

We’re constantly striving to bring something new and different to the table, either in the way that we’re using the cameras, or the storytelling we’re using in the scene, or the way that the characters are being motivated by the action.

We like existentially wacky characters who exist in existential crisis.

We took a very interesting journey from being really extreme art house filmmakers. But we find that working in commercial filmmaking and creating a brand on that high level affords us a lot of interesting opportunities.

Films used to be an event that required work and effort to get to a theater to see. Now, really good content is available immediately to us on many devices. At the same time, the audience’s appetite for storytelling is evolving, and people want to spend time with characters for many years.

Being a global citizen makes you a more interesting person.

I find that when I watch films where the villain is more complex, I find that it makes the heroes more complex and ultimately, in the story, more interesting.

Our job with Thanos is to make him the preeminent villain in the Marvel Universe. That is his role in the comics. That’s his role in these movies.

What we love about working at Marvel is they’ll have a crazy opening for a movie like ‘The Avengers’ – like, a record-breaking all-time opening – and you get to the office on Monday, and they don’t even have a pizza; it’s back-to-work time.

My brother and I are politically-minded guys.

I’ve been collecting comics since I was 10 years old. One of the first books I ever got my hands on was a Captain America-Falcon team-up.

The feature space is a spectacle space. It’s about getting people out of their houses to go to theater when we all have a lot of things in our home now that occupy our attention.

It was always the intent, in a larger arc, to split the Avengers up before the greatest threat that they’ve ever seen.

You look at ‘Arrested Development’ or ‘Community,’ we’re constantly either deconstructing genre or tone. We like to say it’s like being a mad scientist: you get to play in a laboratory and experiment with directions to take narrative in.

I like acting a lot, but it’s not something I get out of bed for every day.

I’m more compelled as an artist to see diversification than I am to keep watching an Anglo point of view in storytelling.

We always try to make each film different so they don’t get repetitive.

In ‘Winter Soldier’ – in terms of character-based, ‘Winter Soldier’ was so specifically for us: everything in that movie was designed around that version of Captain America that we wanted to see, that we wanted to explore. Everything in that film, all of the stylistic choices just flow from that.

We feel a lot of the future of storytelling is going to be in the VR space.

Heroes are a way to remove yourself from what may be difficult concepts to talk about in your life. They’re a way to get some distance and have an experience in a theater where you’re confronting those issues in a way that’s safer for your psyche.

I’m Italian, so I absorb other cultures through their food.

I think movies moving forward are going to become long-form storytelling.

We made ‘Pieces’ in Cleveland with zero connections to the film business. Absolutely zero.

‘Avengers 3’ has a beginning, middle, and a very definitive end, and ‘Avengers 4’ does the same.