Christopher Markus

“Thanos is an amoral philosopher. He's not the Devil - although he does sometimes have the Devil standing next to him.”

“Whenever you write a true story, it's not going to go over 100 percent well with everybody.”

“I really want to write, and it's the only thing I'm good at.”

“One of our jobs as screenwriters is to never lose sight of the character.”

“You don't know, at the beginning of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' that you want Indy to use a whip, but you damn sure know at the end that you loved it. It's cool, and you don't know why.”

“Thanos has eight million backstories in the comics, but they're all kind of sad.”

“Sometimes events happen in one Marvel movie that mean you have to adjust what you planned to happen in a different movie, because they're interconnected.”

“If you have a character named Captain America, he is, by default, a political character.”

“I think we'd like to direct. Not so much because we'd like to be directors... we'd like to see how one of our scripts would do if it didn't get changed.”

“We all want something. Some people take the right path, and some people don't.”

“There's a place for art in the world, but it can't be at the top of the list for a working screenwriter.”

“I never liked pep rallies. I found school spirit hard to deal with. I am much more oriented towards the individual.”

“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”