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  • Writer
  • born 1970
  • 104 quotes

James Gunn, a writer (born 1970), is quoted 104 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Guardians, Thinking, Together and Series.

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Movies aren't machines. They interact with our brains.

I don't really think in terms of competing with myself.

Every movie I've ever made has just kind of come together.

I love 'Empire' - it's my favorite of the 'Star Wars' series.

I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.

Maybe it's the feminine side of me, but I like that AM radio pop.

It's impossible not to constantly adjust the way you look at yourself.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

If I get a gig or I don't get a gig, I really have never, ever, ever cared.

In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.

It's definitely not the character who it is in the comics, I'll say that much.

I saw 'Fifth Element' once when it first came out and never thought much of it.

I'm in favor of anything that will give strong women more visibility in popular culture.

The people who gave up their humanity to save their planet was always very interesting to me.

Writing a comic book series, you're so reliant on whoever the artist is. It truly is collaboration.

I would never want to take on a sequel of someone else's stuff unless I was totally reinventing it.

A lot of people die in my movies. So if you're in a few of my movies, you have a good chance of dying!

Let's face it: there's still a certain amount of racism in human beings, so that shows up in Hollywood.

I'm a little bit twisted, so what makes me laugh the hardest doesn't necessarily make other people laugh.

I don't think through anything I do. I just do it, and it's oftentimes landed me in huge amounts of trouble.

I like the Nova Corps; I just don't like Nova that much! He's okay, you know? I just don't like that helmet!

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.

I was the kid in the neighborhood that was directing everyone else. I was director from the time I was a child.

For me, I'm always hard on myself no matter what, so that's always a thing I have to deal with on a daily basis.

One of the things that we've tried to do with the 'Guardians' films is to allow the women to be full characters.

Thinking that everything is going to come together in a perfect way is not necessarily the way it's going to happen.

I love shooting movies. I love the shots. That's the thing that I love doing, and I've just never been able to do it.

We live in a world where everybody's supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so cynical.

I don't see a big difference between the job of directing a low-budget movie and the job of directing a big-budget movie.

I think of the Avengers as The Beatles, and the Guardians are the Rolling Stones. That is really how I feel about the groups.

I was as huge Spider-Man fan as a kid, but I really liked The Defenders a lot. I was also a big Moon Knight fan for some reason.

I can't be told life is beautiful through a normal positive thinking book or a Hallmark movie; that language doesn't work for me.

It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.

That is who my people are - the oddballs, the rebels, and the geeks. That's what I am, so it's what I naturally feel connected to.

My girlfriend says I have frontal-lobe epilepsy. I have visions. They have slowed down as I've gotten older, but I still have them.

I think that one of the things that drives me in telling stories, and art in general, is finding the beautiful in a big mass of ugly.

Comics were not something that as a young kid you could say you were into in Manchester, Missouri. Kids did not read comic books back then.

My life isn't just one genre. It's a romance one minute, an action movie the next - it's actually rarely, rarely an action film, to be frank.

Let me tell you one thing: there is no more cutthroat place to be than an independent film. Disney is a cakewalk after that - that is no lie.

I always felt restrained by lower-budget films. I enjoyed making them, and I felt fulfilled, but I really did always want to make bigger movies.

There will be a 'Guardians 3,' that's for sure. We're trying to figure it out. I'm trying to figure out what I want to do. Really, that's all it is.

'Monty Python And The Holy Grail' is a hugely important movie to me. I remember watching it for the first time on cable when I was about 13 years old.

One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I got to direct a movie involving three of my favorite things in the world: space operas, Marvel superheroes and raccoons.

I don't have anything against corporate America. I mean, I guess there's something about living in a capitalist society that can get kind of terrifying at times.

The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer's only stuff for sale.

Science fiction literature's focus is on ideas, the concept of change, and the impact on humanity. Those concepts are hard to capture on film. They work better in the mind.

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

I like Jason Statham movies, like 'The Transporter' or whatever. I watch them all the time when they come on TV. Then I saw 'Crank,' and I couldn't believe how awesome it was.

My brain has always been wired in such a way that I'd rather communicate to a smaller audience who really get turned on by what I do than meet a wider audience and give them milk.

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