Marc Guggenheim Quotes:
One of things we say on ‘Arrow’ is, ‘The only constant is evolution.’
Marc Guggenheim
I happen to like dark, and I like the fact that ‘Arrow’ is a pretty dark show, particularly for a network show.
Marc Guggenheim
The thing that I’ve learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like ‘Law & Order,’ is that you can fool some of the people some of the time – but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
Marc Guggenheim
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
The first half of my TV career, I didn’t do any genre at all.
Marc Guggenheim
It’s always really hard to kill off someone who you just really enjoy working with, writing for, and seeing on the screen.
Marc Guggenheim
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.
Marc Guggenheim
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
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.
Marc Guggenheim
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.
Marc Guggenheim
As always, things happen sooner rather than later on ‘Arrow.’
Marc Guggenheim
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.
Marc Guggenheim
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.
Marc Guggenheim
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.
Marc Guggenheim
Time management is really key for me.
Marc Guggenheim
In the writers’ room, when we talk about each episode, we first talk about the character journey of the episode.
Marc Guggenheim
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.’
Marc Guggenheim
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.
Marc Guggenheim