Ryan Fleck

“So many great ideas come out of a misunderstanding.”

“I was born in Berkeley, California, in 1976, and grew up in and around Oakland and the Bay Area.”

“You have to follow the logic of your characters while you're writing.”

“I grew up in Oakland and for a long time I was the only white kid in school. Then I moved to the suburbs when I was in junior high and it was mostly white.”

“Growing up where I did, I came from a politically progressive family so I was aware of social issues, but it seemed like a very separate thing from film.”

“I believe Ryan Reynolds is magic. He's a magical human being.”

“I think anyone who wants to go up against Captain Marvel ought to be worried.”

“It's okay to be serious but try to have fun with whatever you're doing.”

“We learned that, when people are looking around, waiting for you to decide on what to do next, it's often best to just say, 'hey, let's go again' - people start setting up, then you have enough time to discuss, if it doesn't go well on take 2, what the strategy is for take 3.”

“We wanted to capture Danvers' humor and flaws. For us as storytellers, those are all aspects that we really appreciate in characters.”

“I think on our first two movies we weren't really writing for anybody else above us and that's not to say that movies aren't ours in the way we want them to be in terms of the scripts.”

“I think that filmmaking is very addicting and risky, and it gives you a high, for sure.”

“Hopefully 'Mississippi Grind' will be good in the theater.”

“The comic book writer Kelly Sue DeConnick really uniquely tapped into Carol Danvers - not just her toughness and her power, but also her vulnerability.”

“We hate it when movies, right off the bat, tell you who this character is, where they're from, why they are the way they are. Even 'Vertigo,' one of the greatest movies ever made, starts off by explaining why Jimmy Stewart has this fear of heights.”

“Filmmaking is kind of a vain hobby when maybe we should all be taking to the streets. But it seems irresponsible not to be informed by politics in some way.”

“I'm a sucker for movies about uncommon friendships: 'Midnight Cowboy,' 'Harold and Maude,' 'Scarecrow,' 'The Last Detail,' 'Y Tu Mama Tambien,' 'Jules and Jim,' 'Rushmore,' 'Stand by Me.'”

“Film has a magical process to it. The dailies, and the thing you see on your little film monitor, that's not the same thing that's going to be projected.”

“If I hear Anna say something, and I completely misheard her say it, and she goes, 'That's not what I said, but that's a great idea.' Whose idea was it? It was nobody's idea. It came out of thin air, but it was a misunderstanding. That's really what's fun about having a partner to throw ideas off of. Sometimes you get those good accidents.”

“It's very exciting to go from a short to the opening night film within a three year period.”