Marc Guggenheim Quotes
You can save the city, but having the city be in jeopardy is one thing and having the people you care about be in jeopardy is another.
When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written.
I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers.
At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.
At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.
Do what you love and you'll always love what you do. I've found that that's true most of the time.
The guy who sits at the keyboard and types is so much smarter than I am. I think I got into writing so that I could spend as much time with that guy as possible.
Your subconscious is always working in the background, unlocking things and solving problems.
Time away from thinking about something is as valuable - perhaps even more so - than directly thinking about it.
I love doing meta-humor, as long as it doesn't become too distracting and it's subtle.
Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more than one place than one particular time, which is very vexing.
I think when you do a season of television you go into it going I'd like the season premiere needs to be amazing. The season finale needs to be amazing.
All of the stuff I can't afford to do on a TV budget, I just put into the comic book because you're really only limited in a comic by your artist's imagination.