Joe Russo

We get excited by ideas, and we're more excited by being surprised by ideas than we are in dictating the course of events. We've found that leads to more interesting storytelling.

As filmmakers, we are interested in unique voices.

My brother and I are politically-minded guys.

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 there's a lot of people in their dingy boats in the middle of the ocean pining for the days of closed-ended narrative.

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.

I think that what people love most about the Marvel universe are the characters.

As filmmakers, we love ambitious storytelling; it's one of the reasons we pushed to do 'Civil War.' We want to be as ambitious in scope as we possibly can.

Tim Miller is a very good friend of ours. We'd love to see 'Deadpool' jump into the MCU.

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.

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.

We're constantly striving to bring something new and different to the table, either in the way that we're using the cameras, or the storytelling we're using in the scene, or the way that the characters are being motivated by the action.