A biography for Joe Russohasn’t been written yet.
“There's nothing I hate more than going to see a movie and thinking, 'That could have been an hour shorter.'”
“I'm Italian, so I absorb other cultures through their food.”
“If you're a comic book fan, you know that any epic book, you would open it up - as a kid, I would just go through and look at who was fighting who. I'd stand there in the store for 15 minutes until the guy told me to buy the book or get out.”
“We grew up near a cinematheque in Cleveland, so we were very influenced by international cinema, the French New Wave, Italian neo-realists.”