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Television writer

Marc Guggenheim is an American television writer, best known for his work on the television series 'Arrow' and 'The Flash'. His work is characterized by complex character development and engaging storytelling.

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Author:Marc Guggenheim

“Hubris. Blindness. Shame. These are the minions of darkness. Lesser agents to anger, fear and hate. But agents all the same. He has allowed them to enter his thoughts but has refused to face them. To face his greatest failure. But for a Jedi, failure is the greatest teacher. Forgiveness is the path to strength. Understanding is the path to peace. And in that peace… is the power to move mountains.”

Wisdom Star Wars Star Wars Quote Jedi Comics And Graphic Novels Master Yoda

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“Sooner or later, we all go through a crucible. I'm guessing your's was that island. Most believe there are two types of people who go into a crucible: the ones who grow stronger from the experience and survive it, and the ones who die. But there's a third type: the ones who learn to love the fire. They chose to stay in their crucible because it's easier to embrace the pain when it's all you know anymore,”

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Author:Marc Guggenheim

“I always think the audience sometimes wants what you're not giving them.”

Thinking Want Giving Sometimes Audience

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“In part, it's so difficult to come up with something original, to come up with a character nowadays. If you created a globetrotting adventurer, he'd be compared to Indiana Jones. If you created a super spy, he'd be compared to James Bond.”

Ifs Character Difficult Originals Come Up Spy Indiana Adventurer

Author:Marc Guggenheim

“At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.”

Thinking Way Kind Doe Ends Jobs Down And The End Of The Day

Author:Marc Guggenheim

“I'm a very big believer that the reason you've seen this huge surge in superheroes both on television and in film is...part of it of course is zeitgeist. There's no denying that there's a huge appetite on the part of the audience in both TV and film for these kind of adventures.”

Kind Reason Bigs Film Courses Audience Television Adventure Tvs Huge Believer Appetite Superhero Zeitgeist

Author:Marc Guggenheim

“I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers.”

People Thinking Film Television Financial Producers

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“When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written.”

Way Writing Film Written Produce Television Directors Sticks Expected Producers Merry

Author:Marc Guggenheim

“You can save the city, but having the city be in jeopardy is one thing and having the people you care about be in jeopardy is another.”

People Care Cities One Thing Jeopardy

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“Time has a certain current to it, and it wants to flow in a certain direction.”

Want Certain Flow Currents

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“There should be nothing I can't live without.”

Should I Can

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“I'm very fortunate in that all the mediums I work in are extremely collaborative. Movies are probably the most solitary on a day to day basis, but even then you have producers and studio executives to work with and bounce ideas off of.”

Ideas Bases Studios Mediums Producers Fortunate Executives Solitary Day To Day Bounce

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“At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.”

Ifs Matter Pages No Matter What Staring Blank Blank Pages

Author:Marc Guggenheim

“I'm always working on something. I wish I had more time for free-thinking and brainstorming new ideas. That's not to say my mind doesn't wander, but I find myself wishing for more of that kind of time.”

Thinking Mind Kind Ideas Wish Wander More Time New Ideas Free Thinking Brainstorming Always Working

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“When I first started writing, I had a very difficult time switching between projects, but now it's not only second-nature, it's indispensable: If I stall on one project, I can switch to another and stay productive.”

Ifs Writing Firsts I Can Difficult Projects Productive Indispensable Difficult Times Switching

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“Time away from thinking about something is as valuable - perhaps even more so - than directly thinking about it.”

Thinking Valuable Time Away

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“Your subconscious is always working in the background, unlocking things and solving problems.”

Problem Backgrounds Problem Solving Subconscious Always Working Unlocking

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“The guy who sits at the keyboard and types is so much smarter than I am. I think I got into writing so that I could spend as much time with that guy as possible.”

Thinking Writing Guy Type Smarter That Guy Keyboards

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“Do what you love and you'll always love what you do. I've found that that's true most of the time.”

Found What You Love

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“The world's an angry place these days. Let's just not take it out on each other.”

World Angry These Days

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“I love doing meta-humor, as long as it doesn't become too distracting and it's subtle.”

Long Subtle Doing Me

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“Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more than one place than one particular time, which is very vexing.”

Matter Actors Challenges Particular Capability

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“I think when you do a season of television you go into it going I'd like the season premiere needs to be amazing. The season finale needs to be amazing.”

Thinking Needs Television Seasons Premieres Finale

Author:Marc Guggenheim

About the Author

Born: September 24, 1970
Known for: Television writer
Quotes: 24

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