Paul Wernick Quotes

Doctor Killebrew was also in the script at one point, and for creative reasons we ended up cutting him.

Life is not one tone: you laugh and you cry, and your heart breaks, and you have great, great happiness.

There are times through the process that you just think, "Is this all worth it?" It's very, very difficult to get a movie made, and it's very difficult to get a movie made that turns out well, and that fans love, and that the marketing gets right.

It's rare that a movie generally considered a popcorn type movie, gets recognized among such serious, great fare.

One of the reasons Deadpool got made and does exist is because we didn't really look at any of the movies before us and try to draw lessons from them. We just tried to chart our own path, and make something that was fun for us, and that was original, and fresh.

I think the minute that people start looking at Deadpool and saying how can we recreate that is the minute they've already failed. I think everybody needs to be pursuing their own their course.

We have written a draft of the script in every calendar year since [2010]. Quite honestly. Our Deadpool file is... full, to capacity.

Marvel and Disney and all the other superhero movies have to stay within this box and this is an opportunity to jump outside that box. To be the apple among oranges, and really embrace it. So, in terms of us getting what we wanted and what we originally wrote, we largely stayed consistent to that.

We're really soaking every moment in. And, then, you know... should the movie do as well as we all hope, we'll start thinking about a sequel to Deadpool.