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" We like layers of character and personality in our storytelling. We like very distinctive, unique personalities interacting with each other. And I think, because there are two of us, and we're a collective, we identify with that. We call it the mastermind principle: Two minds aren't doubly better than one - they're exponentially better than one. "

Joe Russo

Think

Unique

" First favorite character growing up was Spider-Man, second was Wolverine. "

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

" 'Avengers 3' has a beginning, middle, and a very definitive end, and 'Avengers 4' does the same. "

" 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

Hero

Feel

" Disney represents the future of filmmaking in North America. "

" With a character called Captain , you have to address the concept of who he is because his identity is tied to his country. "

" I think movies moving forward are going to become long-form storytelling. "

" We like existentially wacky characters who exist in existential crisis. "

" 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. "

" I'm Italian, so I absorb other cultures through their food. "

" 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. "

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

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

Joe Russo

Intent

Greatest

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" We began in indies, and maybe we'll make another smaller film again sometime. "

" I find that when I watch films where the villain is more complex, I find that it makes the heroes more complex and ultimately, in the story, more interesting. "

" My brother and I are politically-minded guys. "

Joe Russo

Brother

Guys

" 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. "

" 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

Cleveland

New