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. – 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 similarity between Iron Man and Green Lantern is, unlike Superman or any of the X-Men or Spider-Man, anyone can be Green Lantern or Iron Man. All you need is the ring or the suit. – 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
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
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. – Marc Guggenheim
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. – 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
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
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
I remember the dark days when, thanks to 1966’s ‘Batman’ with Adam West, comics were considered the ugly stepchild of popular culture. – 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 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
I happen to like dark, and I like the fact that ‘Arrow’ is a pretty dark show, particularly for a network show. – 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
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
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
We have several projects in the pipeline, but one of the rules we set for ourselves is we don’t want to solicit or announce any projects that aren’t ready for publication. I’m personally really tired of reading about titles that never come out. – Marc Guggenheim
As a fan, I want all of the Marvel TV projects to be successful. I am a comic book fan. – Marc Guggenheim
The one thing that’s always very safe to say with ‘Arrow’ is never make assumptions. – Marc Guggenheim
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.’ – Marc Guggenheim
Try to imagine a character like Batman whose whole life has been about fighting crime, whose whole existence and identity is his war against criminals, and he wakes up one morning to discover there are no criminals. What happens to him? – Marc Guggenheim
In the writers’ room, when we talk about each episode, we first talk about the character journey of the episode. – Marc Guggenheim
