Marc Guggenheim Quotes
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With comics, there's no budget. There's a budget in terms of you have to pay an artist and a colorist and all that, but you can do anything you want to do.
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That's one of the perks of my job, is getting to see what the Internet does.
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I'm not like Jonathan Hickman, who's able to sort of plot out three years of a book ahead of time. I'm much more of a guy who plots out an arc or two at a time.
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The first half of my TV career, I didn't do any genre at all.
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I'm a huge fan of 'The Six Million Dollar Man' and I love the episodes where they would cross over with 'The Bionic Woman.'
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Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner.
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As always, we start off with asking, 'What's a good episode?' We don't think about timing, and we don't think about logistics. We just think about what would be good.
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As a fan, I want all of the Marvel TV projects to be successful. I am a comic book fan.
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The term 'Consulting Producer' is extraordinarily nebulous in TV, and it really means something different depending on the show and the specific circumstances negotiated.
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Obviously, I love superheroes; I love comic book characters, but I... I guess I've had a lifelong affection for comics, and while I love the characters so much, I also love the medium.
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On 'Arrow,' we have Ray Palmer and Roy Harper, and if you call Roy 'Ray' and Ray 'Roy,' you have to put money into the jar.
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I actually feel like comic book movies need to be better than your average movie.
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We're not militant, but there are certain things that are absolutely secret. There was a pilot printed on red paper, and I read everything on my iPad and have a scanner on my desk for these purposes. I scanned in the script, and red paper script scans in perfectly fine.
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I came up professionally as a lawyer, and when you're a lawyer, writing a 50-page brief in one night is just another day at the office. You learn to make choices really quickly, and you learn how to get thoughts down very quickly.
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One of things we say on 'Arrow' is, 'The only constant is evolution.'
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In the writers' room, when we talk about each episode, we first talk about the character journey of the episode.
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Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.
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Every season, we spend what really should be our hiatus, and what really should be me relaxing on a beach, planning out the whole season.
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I happen to like dark, and I like the fact that 'Arrow' is a pretty dark show, particularly for a network show.
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Doc Savage, Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon... these were the kinds of characters I was thinking about as I was developing Jonas Quantum because there aren't that many brand new characters being introduced anymore.
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Collider is a company that I formed with a movie producer, Alisa Tager, and we just wanted to create a place where writers could come and develop their ideas without a regard to limitations of form.
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We're huge fans of 'Game of Thrones' for example, 'Orphan Black.' And even though those shows don't necessarily correlate directly with 'Arrow,' I'm a very big believer that writers are the product of their inspirations.
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With 'The Flash' in existence, there's no real compelling reason for us to do superpowers on 'Arrow.'
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I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach.