Marc Guggenheim
Marc Guggenheim
Marc Guggenheim is an American screenwriter, television producer, comic book writer, and novelist. He is best known as the creator of the television series Eli Stone, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow, as well as the writer of Green Lantern, and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth24 September 1970
CountryUnited States of America
problem problem-solving subconscious
Your subconscious is always working in the background, unlocking things and solving problems.
writing thinking guy
The guy who sits at the keyboard and types is so much smarter than I am. I think I got into writing so that I could spend as much time with that guy as possible.
Do what you love and you'll always love what you do. I've found that that's true most of the time.
The world's an angry place these days. Let's just not take it out on each other.
long doing-me
I love doing meta-humor, as long as it doesn't become too distracting and it's subtle.
genre
The first half of my TV career, I didn't do any genre at all.
afford comic limited stuff tv
All of the stuff I can't afford to do on a TV budget, I just put into the comic book because you're really only limited in a comic by your artist's imagination.
The goal, first and foremost, is to tell a satisfying - entertaining - story.
prefer sell soft
I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach.
The one thing that's always very safe to say with 'Arrow' is never make assumptions.
character dc easter full hard huge name universe
Fortunately, the DC Universe is full enough and replete enough with every kind of character that you could want, that it's not that hard to find the right character. Sometimes it's nothing more than an Easter egg, or a name drop, and sometimes it's someone like 'Deathstroke,' who is a huge part of the DC Universe.
thinking valuable time-away
Time away from thinking about something is as valuable - perhaps even more so - than directly thinking about it.
thinking giving want
I always think the audience sometimes wants what you're not giving them.
thinking people television
I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers.