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Joe Russo
American
Director
Born:
1971
Film
Good
Love
People
Think
You
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We tend to intensely scout an area and then use our imaginations to make the best use of the geography.
Joe Russo
Best
Our
Area
Tend
Make
Geography
Scout
Intensely
Then
Use
Imaginations
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.
Joe Russo
Love
Best
Good
Passion
Thought
Energy
Our
Telling
Good Stories
Effort
Goes
Being
Stories
Story
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.
Joe Russo
Complicated
Language
Too Much
Think
Too
Our
Way
Out
Find
Takes
Like
Most
Because
Deal
Very
Get
Want
Them
Much
Moment
Actor
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.
Joe Russo
Journey
Trials
Hero
Those
Characters
Cost
Something
Could
Through
Emotion
Sacrifices
True
Feel
Make
Go
Them
Really
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.
Joe Russo
Art
Journey
Opportunities
Took
Extreme
High
Find
High Level
House
Lot
Very
Brand
Commercial
Affords
Being
Interesting
Us
Really
Creating
Working
Level
Filmmakers
Filmmaking
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.
Joe Russo
Life
You
Experience
Yourself
Heroes
Remove
Difficult
Distance
Way
Those
Some
About
Talk
Concepts
Safer
Issues
Get
May
Psyche
Where
Theater
Confronting
Your
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.
Joe Russo
Home
People
Space
Our
Out
About
Feature
Attention
Houses
Occupy
Go
Lot
Getting
Theater
Now
Things
Spectacle
We always try to make each film different so they don't get repetitive.
Joe Russo
Try
Make
Always
Repetitive
Get
Different
Each
Film
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.
Joe Russo
You
Respect
Wind
Other
Find
Superhero
Something
Smashing
Like
Genre
Genres
Fresh
Up
Different
Really
Each
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.'
Joe Russo
War
Character
You
Winter
World
Degree
Universe
Soldier
Civil
Superhero
Civil War
Something
Step
Toward
Look
Terms
Him
Least
Still
Trying
Did
Modern
Movie
Modern World
Cap
Ground
Tonal
Bringing
Playing
'Avengers 3' has a beginning, middle, and a very definitive end, and 'Avengers 4' does the same.
Joe Russo
Beginning
Definitive
Does
End
Very
Same
Middle
Avengers
Everything is finite, right? Nothing can last forever.
Joe Russo
Nothing
Everything
Finite
Forever
Right
Last
I think movies moving forward are going to become long-form storytelling.
Joe Russo
Moving Forward
Become
Think
Going
Movies
Moving
Storytelling
Forward
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.
Joe Russo
Job
Universe
Our
Marvel
Make
Him
Comics
His
Role
Movies
Villain
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.
Joe Russo
You
Experiment
Community
Say
Mad
Constantly
Directions
Take
Development
Like
Look
Genre
Narrative
Arrested
Arrested Development
Scientist
Laboratory
Get
Being
Either
Play
Tone
With a character called Captain , you have to address the concept of who he is because his identity is tied to his country.
Joe Russo
Character
You
Country
Address
He
Concept
Identity
Tied
Because
His
Who
Captain
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.
Joe Russo
Day
Morning
Old
Back
Strikes
Out
Empire
Until
Came
Years
Theater
Sat
Watched
Night
Chris Nolan went through Slamdance a year and a half after us, and he went on to direct 'The Dark Knight.' So the joke now is if you want to make superhero movies, that's where you have to go.
Joe Russo
You
Dark
Joke
Half
Year
Superhero
Direct
Through
He
Knight
Nolan
Make
Go
Where
Want
After
Movies
Us
Now
Chris
I was a comic book nut. For real. I still have a collection in my closet.
Joe Russo
Book
Nut
Collection
Comic
Comic Book
Real
Still
Closet
I like acting a lot, but it's not something I get out of bed for every day.
Joe Russo
Day
Every Day
Every
Out
Something
Like
Bed
Lot
Get
Acting
I've had emotional experiences in VR that I haven't been able to have in two-dimensional experiences.
Joe Russo
Able
Emotional
Emotional Experiences
Had
Been
Experiences
Two-Dimensional
We never intended to be comedic directors; it was just something we fell into.
Joe Russo
Something
Directors
Never
Fell
Comedic
Intended
Just
Just Something
If you're a fan of auteur filmmaking, I'd say get yourself invested in some really good TV shows.
Joe Russo
Good
You
Yourself
Say
TV
TV Shows
Some
Invested
Get
Fan
Really
Shows
Filmmaking
I think we find that it's most helpful when we have both of our brains applied to an issue.
Joe Russo
Think
Our
Find
Both
Most
Issue
Brains
Helpful
Applied
We want to empower artists and filmmakers to forge new paths.
Joe Russo
New
Empower
Forge
Paths
Artists
Want
Filmmakers
We grew up near a cinematheque in Cleveland, so we were very influenced by international cinema, the French New Wave, Italian neo-realists.
Joe Russo
Cinema
Wave
New
Cleveland
French
Were
Italian
Up
Very
Influenced
Grew
International
Near
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