Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Christopher Markus

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Christopher Markus.

Last updated on April 16, 2025.

Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely are American screenwriters and producers. McFeely and Markus were the second and the third most successful screenwriters of all time in terms of U.S. box office receipts with a shared total gross of over $3.1 billion. However, in overall, they are the highest grossing screenwriters altogether in terms of worldwide box office with the total gross of $9.3 billion.

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I think we'd like to direct. Not so much because we'd like to be directors... we'd like to see how one of our scripts would do if it didn't get changed.

Christopher Markus

Whenever you write a true story, it's not going to go over 100 percent well with everybody.

Christopher Markus

I never liked pep rallies. I found school spirit hard to deal with. I am much more oriented towards the individual.

Christopher Markus

We all want something. Some people take the right path, and some people don't.

Christopher Markus

There's a place for art in the world, but it can't be at the top of the list for a working screenwriter.

Christopher Markus

Thanos has eight million backstories in the comics, but they're all kind of sad.

Christopher Markus

You don't know, at the beginning of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' that you want Indy to use a whip, but you damn sure know at the end that you loved it. It's cool, and you don't know why.

Christopher Markus

Thanos is an amoral philosopher. He's not the Devil - although he does sometimes have the Devil standing next to him.

Christopher Markus

I really want to write, and it's the only thing I'm good at.

Christopher Markus

Sometimes events happen in one Marvel movie that mean you have to adjust what you planned to happen in a different movie, because they're interconnected.

Christopher Markus

If you have a character named Captain America, he is, by default, a political character.

Christopher Markus

One of our jobs as screenwriters is to never lose sight of the character.

Christopher Markus