I've been collecting comics since I was 10 years old. One of the first books I ever got my hands on was a Captain America-Falcon team-up.
Tim Miller is a very good friend of ours. We'd love to see 'Deadpool' jump into the MCU.
'Avengers 3' has a beginning, middle, and a very definitive end, and 'Avengers 4' does the same.
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.
We want to empower artists and filmmakers to forge new paths.
I'm more compelled as an artist to see diversification than I am to keep watching an Anglo point of view in storytelling.
As filmmakers, we are interested in unique voices.
I'm Italian, so I absorb other cultures through their food.
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.
In 'Winter Soldier' - in terms of character-based, 'Winter Soldier' was so specifically for us: everything in that movie was designed around that version of Captain America that we wanted to see, that we wanted to explore. Everything in that film, all of the stylistic choices just flow from that.
It was always the intent, in a larger arc, to split the Avengers up before the greatest threat that they've ever seen.
I think movies moving forward are going to become long-form storytelling.
Our job with Thanos is to make him the preeminent villain in the Marvel Universe. That is his role in the comics. That's his role in these movies.
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.
We feel a lot of the future of storytelling is going to be in the VR space.
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.
My brother and I are politically-minded guys.
I sat in a theater when I was 11 years old and watched 'The Empire Strikes Back' from 10 in the morning until 10 at night the day it came out.
I was a comic book nut. For real. I still have a collection in my closet.
I like acting a lot, but it's not something I get out of bed for every day.
