Films used to be an event that required work and effort to get to a theater to see. Now, really good content is available immediately to us on many devices. At the same time, the audience's appetite for storytelling is evolving, and people want to spend time with characters for many years.

Joe Russo

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And he does something similar in the next sequence when he gives... by Joe Russo

And he does something similar in the next sequence when he gives his own eulogy.

Give yourself a round of applause, you made the Marvel Universe happen and we couldnt be more grateful.

We like to liken it to a fight at a wedding, it's something that's been brewing in a family for some time and something happens that instigates a fall-out amongst all of the characters so relevancy and topicality are really important to us because it makes the audience feel like it's part of their world.

We like existentially wacky characters who exist in existential c... by Joe Russo

We like existentially wacky characters who exist in existential crisis.

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We feel a lot of the future of storytelling is going to be in the... by Joe Russo

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

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

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What we love about working at Marvel is they'll have a crazy opening for a movie like 'The Avengers' - like, a record-breaking all-time opening - and you get to the office on Monday, and they don't even have a pizza; it's back-to-work time.

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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.

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Our language - the way that we deal with most actors is we don't like to get very complicated because we don't want them to think too much because we find it takes them out of the moment.

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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.

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We made 'Pieces' in Cleveland with zero connections to the film b... by Joe Russo

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

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We took a very interesting journey from being really extreme art house filmmakers. But we find that working in commercial filmmaking and creating a brand on that high level affords us a lot of interesting opportunities.

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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.

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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.

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We always try to make each film different so they don't get repet... by Joe Russo

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

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We like smashing genres into each other, so if you can find something that's really idiosyncratic in respect to superhero genre and you can smoosh it into it, you usually wind up with something fresh and different.

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

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I think that what people love most about the Marvel universe are... by Joe Russo

I think that what people love most about the Marvel universe are the characters.

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It was always the intent, in a larger arc, to split the Avengers up before the greatest threat that they've ever seen.

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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.'

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