36 James Gunn Quotes for You to Enjoy

James Gunn

American Director

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

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I guess I am an optimist in a pessimist brain, if that makes any sense. I believe in the innate goodness of most people in this world, and yet I'm a damaged soul like many other people and have my own demons and things I struggle with. James Gunn

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I would say the main thing is, don't just copy yourself, which is what a lot of sequels do. And in some cases, it works. Like James Bond movies. But James Bond is a different type of character. James Gunn

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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. James Gunn

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I've come to trust that what I like is what works. James Gunn

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

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When I was a kid, I was obsessed with different planets in the solar system, and I used to create, for every single planet, a different alien race with a certain kind of pet, a certain kind of house, a certain kind of water system, and everything. I would draw these pictures. I had hundreds of these pictures in a box. James Gunn

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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. James Gunn

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The movies I like watching the most are these sort of cinema verite, handheld films where you really get gritty with people. But I also have this strange affinity for old Rock Hudson/Doris Day movies and things that sort of pop out where you see the frames, where you have these 2D animation moments and split-screens and things like that. James Gunn

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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! James Gunn

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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. James Gunn

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When I was a small child, I partially learned to read with comics, in particular with 'Scamp,' about the Lady and the Tramp's male child. That was the prime comic that made me fall in love with comics as a kid. James Gunn

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When I write a screenplay - and I think it's one of the reasons why it was frustrating for me just to be a screenwriter - I'm not thinking of it in terms of words on a page; I'm thinking in terms of visual images - basically, a comic book. I'm thinking of it in a series of shots. James Gunn

I made 'Super' for $3 million, and that was filmed in 24 days. And that $3 million dollars went to a lot of things other than what shows up on screen. Once you get done with the unions and everything else, that's just, like, the basic cost of what you can make a movie for. James Gunn

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'Belko Experiment' was the harshest, most extreme movie I ever made. But I still think there's a very cohesive center to it that wasn't always in my early films. And that isn't necessarily a bad thing. But I think it's a commercial thing. James Gunn

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Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does buy happier. James Gunn

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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. James Gunn

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I am loath to suggest 'Visitor Q' to anyone, because you've got to have a warped brain to even understand or appreciate it a little bit. Fortunately, or unfortunately, I have been blessed with a warped brain, and I really dug it. James Gunn

My favorite dark comedy, which is also one of my favorite films of all time, is 'After Hours.' I've seen 'After Hours' as much as almost any film I've ever seen in my life; I've watched it dozens of times, and I still watch it once a year. I still get a thrill out of it every time I see it. James Gunn

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

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Science fiction writers aren't in the prediction business; they're in the speculation business, using 'hasn't happened' or 'hasn't happened yet' to create entertaining scenarios that may or may not anticipate future realities. James Gunn

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