Mark Millar Quotes

He [Stuart Immonen] and I have known each other over email for 18, 19 years or something, so to finally work with him is like kissing the girl that you always wanted to kiss.

I'm very much of the opinion that theatre is a collective art form, not just one person's vision.

In this artistic world, you might as well find a way to work with somebody that you have admiration for.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

I would have done anything. I just really love the Duplass brothers. I was at a place where I was desperate for good writing. It wasn't the part that attracted me to it; it was just to be able to work with them. And the fact that she's this kind of, like, loose cannon and this kind of desperate 40-year-old is just the icing on the cake.

I just wish that I had a part in everything Aaron Sorkin wrote. Sometimes I wish I was a member of an acting troupe where we all just kept working together, the same people. I can't, unfortunately, be in everything he writes. I'm excited for him, but I'm jealous that I wasn't a part of it.

The longer I've been writing scripts, the more I find that you have to give the artist more leeway or else you'll just be disappointed. You can't force them to draw every image that's in your head. Since I'm a horrific artist, I wouldn't want them to anyway. So I definitely give them a lot more leeway now than I did at the beginning.

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

Some couples could not work together but we enjoy working on our projects and building our art business.

I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together.

I'd like to produce. I'd like to come up with ideas and collaborate with people and directors and writers that I like, be a part of movies that have the same idea that the movies that impacted me have. I'd like to be able to do that for people.

I've known Greg Berlanti from way back. I've done two shows with him, and both times, he was like, 'I've got something good for you,' and they did not disappoint.

I'd love to write for other people.

It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.

I'd work with Danny Boyle every day of the week. No matter what he was doing I would do that.

I share an office with Jason Sudeikis, and I'm friends with him, so I end up writing for him a lot.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

To work with the same director is a great feeling.

Film is a collaborative art form. If you're not being collaborative, you probably shouldn't be working in film. You don't do it on your own. People who understand that, cultivate that, get the best results.

I don't do a lot of strategizing, career-wise. I was approached by Chris and Phil, the guys who did 'The Lego Movie.' They gave me my first job on 'Clone High.' We've been friends forever, and they asked me if I wanted to write something with them.

That's what I've always wanted to do - work with my favorite writers and make something from scratch with them that we can feel like didn't exist before we came in the room.

Having a connection and chemistry with a director is really key.