American - Director | 1971 -
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.
Joe Russo
JourneyHeroFeelGoTrueTrials
'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.
TogetherWarUniverseMeant To Be
Anthony and I are putting together a company where we won't lose our jobs based on quarterly earnings and can afford to play a longer game. That short game is what creates a glut of mediocrity in the market because people are desperate for hits, and it puts so much pressure on executives to deliver them. We will take that pressure off the artists.
TogetherPeopleGamePressureShort
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.
LoveGoodPassionBestEffortStory
We tend to intensely scout an area and then use our imaginations to make the best use of the geography.
BestScoutGeographyMakeOurUse
It was always the intent, in a larger arc, to split the Avengers up before the greatest threat that they've ever seen.
AlwaysUpSeenGreatestIntentEver
If you look at what we did with 'Winter Soldier' with the Cap character in terms of bringing him into the modern world, trying to ground the movie tonally into something that was a step toward real-world, at least to the degree you can do that in a superhero movie, that's still the tonal universe that we're playing in 'Civil War.'
WinterCharacterWarStepWorldYou
'Avengers 3' has a beginning, middle, and a very definitive end, and 'Avengers 4' does the same.
BeginningEndSameMiddleVeryDoes
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.
VillainStoryInterestingFindMore
Everything is finite, right? Nothing can last forever.
NothingRightEverythingForever
We made 'Pieces' in Cleveland with zero connections to the film business. Absolutely zero.
BusinessConnectionsPiecesFilm
I think movies moving forward are going to become long-form storytelling.
Moving ForwardMovingForwardThink
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Joe Russo quotes