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" The first half of my TV career, I didn't do any genre at all. "
Marc Guggenheim
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" The nice thing about 'Arrow' is we never say never on the show. Hopefully the show will have a nice long life, and all manner of things can potentially happen. "
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" One of things we say on 'Arrow' is, 'The only constant is evolution.' "
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" There's a lot of downtime where you're filling your car up with gas, you're driving to work, you're stuck in traffic - it's Los Angeles, and so much of it is a car lifestyle. "
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" We're huge fans of 'Game of Thrones' for example, 'Orphan Black.' And even though those shows don't necessarily correlate directly with 'Arrow,' I'm a very big believer that writers are the product of their inspirations. "
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" In the writers' room, when we talk about each episode, we first talk about the character journey of the episode. "
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" I remember the dark days when, thanks to 1966's 'Batman' with Adam West, comics were considered the ugly stepchild of popular culture. "
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" As a fan, I want all of the Marvel TV projects to be successful. I am a comic book fan. "
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" Obviously, I love superheroes; I love comic book characters, but I... I guess I've had a lifelong affection for comics, and while I love the characters so much, I also love the medium. "
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" I'm a huge fan of 'The Six Million Dollar Man' and I love the episodes where they would cross over with 'The Bionic Woman.' "
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" As always, we start off with asking, 'What's a good episode?' We don't think about timing, and we don't think about logistics. We just think about what would be good. "
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Good
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" We've enjoyed laying the foundation for 'The Flash' series. "
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Laying
Flash
" On 'Arrow,' we have Ray Palmer and Roy Harper, and if you call Roy 'Ray' and Ray 'Roy,' you have to put money into the jar. "
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You
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" I happen to like dark, and I like the fact that 'Arrow' is a pretty dark show, particularly for a network show. "
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" With comics, there's no budget. There's a budget in terms of you have to pay an artist and a colorist and all that, but you can do anything you want to do. "
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Anything
Pay
" We're not militant, but there are certain things that are absolutely secret. There was a pilot printed on red paper, and I read everything on my iPad and have a scanner on my desk for these purposes. I scanned in the script, and red paper script scans in perfectly fine. "
Marc Guggenheim
Everything
Paper
Pilot
" Doc Savage, Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon... these were the kinds of characters I was thinking about as I was developing Jonas Quantum because there aren't that many brand new characters being introduced anymore. "
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Thinking
Quantum
New
" Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track. "
Marc Guggenheim
Argument
Right
Good
" I came up professionally as a lawyer, and when you're a lawyer, writing a 50-page brief in one night is just another day at the office. You learn to make choices really quickly, and you learn how to get thoughts down very quickly. "
Marc Guggenheim
Writing
Choices
Night
" 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. "
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Budget
Book
You
" Everything is always on the table. I think it's one of the things that's made 'Arrow' special. But we also all collectively feel like 'The Flash' needs to stand on its own two feet, now that it's gotten its launch from 'Arrow.' "
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" That's one of the perks of my job, is getting to see what the Internet does. "
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Getting
Internet
" Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner. "
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Imagine
Years
World
" As always, things happen sooner rather than later on 'Arrow.' "
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" It's always really hard to kill off someone who you just really enjoy working with, writing for, and seeing on the screen. "
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