Quotes from Joe Russo

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

I think we find that it's most helpful when we have both of our brains applied to an issue.

Tim Miller is a very good friend of ours. We'd love to see 'Deadpool' jump into the MCU.

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.

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.

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

Disney represents the future of filmmaking in North America.

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

Being a global citizen makes you a more interesting person.

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

I always say one of the great scenes from 'The Dirty Dozen' is where Jim Brown has to get grenades in the chimney.

Characters have to make sacrifices. To really, really feel the true emotion and the hero's journey, they have to go through trials, and those trials could cost them something.

We never intended to be comedic directors; it was just something we fell into.

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

If you're a fan of auteur filmmaking, I'd say get yourself invested in some really good TV shows.

We began in indies, and maybe we'll make another smaller film again sometime.

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

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.

First favorite character growing up was Spider-Man, second was Wolverine.

'The Infinity War' is meant to be a culmination film. It's meant to join together all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe against an incredible universal threat - Thanos.

I was a comic book nut. For real. I still have a collection in my closet.

If you're a comic book fan, you know that any epic book, you would open it up - as a kid, I would just go through and look at who was fighting who. I'd stand there in the store for 15 minutes until the guy told me to buy the book or get out.

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