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Top 25 James Gunn Quotes (2025 Update)

James Gunn Quote: “One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.”

1. “One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.”

James Gunn Quote: “In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.”

2. “In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.”

James Gunn Quote: “The zombie is in a lot of ways the perfect horror movie bad guy. It plays on so many fears all at once. The fear of predators, the fear of disease and the fear of loved ones betraying us – the ones we care about are turning around and trying to eat us.”

3. “The zombie is in a lot of ways the perfect horror movie bad guy. It plays on so many fears all at once. The fear of predators, the fear of disease and the fear of loved ones betraying us – the ones we care about are turning around and trying to eat us.”

James Gunn Quote: “I don’t know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can – that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.”

4. “I don’t know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can – that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.”

James Gunn Quote: “I love Groot so much I get teary eyed when I think of him sometimes. Essentially, all the Guardians start out the movie as bastards – except Groot. He’s an innocent. He’s a hundred percent deadly and a hundred percent sweet. He’s caught up in Rocket’s life, really.”

5. “I love Groot so much I get teary eyed when I think of him sometimes. Essentially, all the Guardians start out the movie as bastards – except Groot. He’s an innocent. He’s a hundred percent deadly and a hundred percent sweet. He’s caught up in Rocket’s life, really.”

James Gunn Quote: “We live in a world where everybody’s supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so cynical.”

6. “We live in a world where everybody’s supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so cynical.”

James Gunn Quote: “I really like people who can do both drama and comedy and not some like middle of the road do both drama and comedy. I’m not talking about some guy who does these bland dramedies all the time. I’m talking about people that have done heavy drama and who have done heavy comedy.”

7. “I really like people who can do both drama and comedy and not some like middle of the road do both drama and comedy. I’m not talking about some guy who does these bland dramedies all the time. I’m talking about people that have done heavy drama and who have done heavy comedy.”

James Gunn Quote: “These things are never easy, and you take them to your grave.”

8. “These things are never easy, and you take them to your grave.”

James Gunn Quote: “God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.”

9. “God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.”

James Gunn Quote: “I hope I’m still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.”

10. “I hope I’m still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.”

James Gunn Quote: “But if you, as an independent filmmaker or a ‘serious’ filmmaker, think you put more love into your characters than the Russo Brothers do Captain America, or Joss Whedon does the Hulk, or I do a talking raccoon, you are simply mistaken.”

11. “But if you, as an independent filmmaker or a ‘serious’ filmmaker, think you put more love into your characters than the Russo Brothers do Captain America, or Joss Whedon does the Hulk, or I do a talking raccoon, you are simply mistaken.”

James Gunn Quote: “It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.”

12. “It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.”

James Gunn Quote: “The writer’s genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer’s only stuff for sale.”

13. “The writer’s genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer’s only stuff for sale.”

James Gunn Quote: “I don’t really like movies that are all one or the other. It’s really about the play between both of them. Now that I’ve said that, there’s actually lots of movies that I like that are one or the other but it’s just not for me as a filmmaker.”

14. “I don’t really like movies that are all one or the other. It’s really about the play between both of them. Now that I’ve said that, there’s actually lots of movies that I like that are one or the other but it’s just not for me as a filmmaker.”

James Gunn Quote: “When I was a kid, I was obsessed with different planets in the solar system, and I used to create, for every single planet, a different alien race with a certain kind of pet, a certain kind of house, a certain kind of water system, and everything.”

15. “When I was a kid, I was obsessed with different planets in the solar system, and I used to create, for every single planet, a different alien race with a certain kind of pet, a certain kind of house, a certain kind of water system, and everything.”

James Gunn Quote: “Thinking that everything is going to come together in a perfect way is not necessarily the way it’s going to happen.”

16. “Thinking that everything is going to come together in a perfect way is not necessarily the way it’s going to happen.”

James Gunn Quote: “In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.”

17. “In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.”

James Gunn Quote: “I like to plan everything out and know exactly what we’re doing. It’s always important to me to work with a cast and a crew that not only I respect their talent but I really like them as people.”

18. “I like to plan everything out and know exactly what we’re doing. It’s always important to me to work with a cast and a crew that not only I respect their talent but I really like them as people.”

James Gunn Quote: “When people go to the theater, people say they want something different, but what they really want is something the same with slight permutations. To really not know what is going to happen next is a hard thing.”

19. “When people go to the theater, people say they want something different, but what they really want is something the same with slight permutations. To really not know what is going to happen next is a hard thing.”

James Gunn Quote: “I always like to think that I make movies that are like Nirvana songs. They have a slow verse and then they pop into high gear and then they go back into slow and then they pop into high gear again.”

20. “I always like to think that I make movies that are like Nirvana songs. They have a slow verse and then they pop into high gear and then they go back into slow and then they pop into high gear again.”

James Gunn Quote: “My brain has always been wired in such a way that I’d rather communicate to a smaller audience who really get turned on by what I do than meet a wider audience and give them milk.”

21. “My brain has always been wired in such a way that I’d rather communicate to a smaller audience who really get turned on by what I do than meet a wider audience and give them milk.”

James Gunn Quote: “Every movie I’ve ever made has just kind of come together.”

22. “Every movie I’ve ever made has just kind of come together.”

James Gunn Quote: “There’s no way of getting away from the noises of the city when the noises of the city are in your head.”

23. “There’s no way of getting away from the noises of the city when the noises of the city are in your head.”

James Gunn Quote: “It’s definitely not the character who it is in the comics, I’ll say that much.”

24. “It’s definitely not the character who it is in the comics, I’ll say that much.”

James Gunn Quote: “Because sometimes, you see, even your life means something to somebody.”

25. “Because sometimes, you see, even your life means something to somebody.”

James Gunn Quote: “The laws of classical physics are statistical; the unpredictable, individual atom enjoys free will...”

26. “The laws of classical physics are statistical; the unpredictable, individual atom enjoys free will...”

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