Top 77 Quotes & Sayings by Kate Herron

Oh, Amy Poehler. I just love her. I think she's like a dream woman.

I play a lot of board games, so you need to be quite good at strategy and poker faces so people can't always read your hand.

When I joined the project, we always knew that Loki and Sylvie were going to go to He Who Remains, and the multiverse would be released. So I already knew when I got the job that it was going to be a massive undertaking to do that and a big responsibility for Marvel to get it right.

For me, it was really exciting because I think Loki has had one of the best arcs over the last 10 years of the MCU.

I feel like we've done a lot of amazing groundwork in setting up the TVA and Loki on a whole new journey.

With filmmaking, I for so long was like, oh, I need permission to go out and be a director and be a filmmaker. And I read Robert Rodriguez's 'Rebel Without a Crew.' He just went out and did it, man. In his book, he even says just put your name on a business card and say you're a filmmaker. Congratulations, you're a filmmaker.

We're taking Loki to an entirely new part of the MCU.

You know, 'Jurassic Park' is a film I always go back to a lot - it's a fantastical world, but I care about all the characters in that situation, and then I think in caring about them, it can make it relatable and help me kind of see this heightened world through, not always familiar eyes, but at least eyes I can understand.

You get so deep into something when you are filming, it's almost like writing it again when you are in the edit.

There are some actors who will come in firing and they just want to go for it. But they don't want to do a million takes.

Well, there's that beautiful quote about Loki from the comics, which is that he's the god of outcasts, and I think he said 'They see themselves in me, and I in them.' I think that's a big part of why I love Loki, but also, you know, he is isolated.

And I love genre, and I love Loki, and I love Marvel.

The multiverse being released, we always knew that is where 'Loki's story was going to end.

My dad, bless him, he was never into Marvel before, but now he's obsessed with it. When I got the job, he started watching his way through the films, and he's got all these different YouTubers that he now watches for theories, and he tries to get spoilers out of me.

In terms of the themes, I love gray areas. The show is really about what makes someone truly good or what makes someone truly bad, and are we either of those things? 'Loki' is in that gray area.

Good comedy writing is always coming from truth.

I love villains.

I've worked at a lot of random places, which weirdly has influenced 'Loki' in some ways because we have this office culture kind of running through it. I've worked in a lot of offices.

I was really inspired by the film Minority Report when he sees the projection of his wife because she's no longer there, but she's life-size and in the room with him, and that's very painful.

I would say that when I joined 'Loki,' it was always going to be those six episodes. We were treating it like a movie, and we were running it like a movie. We weren't doing it in the showrunner system.

Well, I think the thing that was always important to us, first and foremost, was that our Loki, it's his journey that he goes on, and that's something that we definitely were looking at for a long time.

I remember trying to turn one of my Barbies into Storm, and I melted her hair off.

The jobs I've gotten are usually the ones where I go in cold or blind in terms of what they're after and I pitch my take on it.

When I worked in an office, I was definitely using a computer that should've been long gone over a decade ago but wasn't because it wasn't broken so they weren't going to fix it.

Because I thought there's no point trying to second guess what people are looking for, because if I'm the right director for it, then I'll get the job.

Loneliness is definitely a theme running through the show, but I think there's hope in it also. Loki and Sylvie find each other, and there's hope in that for them.

I'm so bad at getting up in the morning.

I always wanted to direct stories that are big scale and fantastical worlds.

I love Marvel and I'd love to work with them again, but my outing with 'Loki' is what I've done with them.

I always thought of episode 1 as the prologue and episode 2 as our chapter 1 for 'Loki.'

I remember in 'Men in Black,' there's a coffee room, a tiny little room where they have their coffee break. In the offices I worked in, yeah, there were rooms like that.

When I started the show, that was always in the DNA of it - that Loki was going to meet a version of himself and they were going to fall in love.

I think that if a villain's done right, you don't necessarily have to like their actions, but you have to understand them.

Loki has been written as bi, he's also been written as pan, and it just felt like this is a show about his identity, so let's acknowledge it and make it canon.

It didn't come to pass or anything, but it would be interesting to do a 'Sex Ed' - Marvel crossover.

It's about Loki's journey, and he's a character that wants the throne in episode one whereas by the finale, he doesn't want that.

Oh, I think I'd be a lighthouse keeper. I was living on my own for a lot through COVID, and I think I was quite good at it.

Alligator Loki, who knows what the alligator's story could be? That was always fun - the debate about whether it's a Loki, or if it's just an alligator with horns on its head. I think he is a Loki.

When I started, there wasn't a discussion of Season 2, exactly. It was just that season of 'Loki.' As we got deeper into production, everyone was very happy, and obviously there's so much to explore with Loki.

It was nice to see Loki grow as a character, because of the love he found within himself, to see the good points of another version of himself.

The main thing I would say is: Lady Loki in the comics is a very different character to our character, obviously.

Mobius is like a detective in the way that he works with Loki.

I think Marvel is really good at managing, and the thing I love about working with them is that you never feel hindered.

An Alligator Loki is something that we all found hysterically funny.

I love stories about self-love and finding your identity and your people.

Miss Minutes was inspired a bit by Felix the Cat, and cartoons of that era.

I'm really proud to have been part of Loki's story. I gave it everything in my heart and my soul.

I just didn't know that you could have a voice and an authorship over a film, which probably sounds a bit silly. But I just hadn't really thought about films in that way.

Directing all six episodes was a really unique experience, right? Because normally TV is run through the showrunner system, and Marvel didn't do that on 'Loki.'

They changed my life, and I just love Marvel as I'm sure people can tell from the amount of Easter eggs and references I did throughout it. But I just feel like I've done my part with 'Loki,' at least for now, and I'm excited to see where it goes next as a fan.

Generally, Marvel manages everything internally and keeps us all in check.

The show is not so clean cut in terms of good and bad. That is the theme that runs through the show. Loki is taking down the TVA, but is it the right decision?

'A Clockwork Orange' was filmed near where I grew up, and 'Children of Men.'

It was so exciting to me watching him go from villain to antihero over the last 10 years. So when I found out they were making a show about 'Loki,' I was very determined to get in the room for it, and they luckily met me and here I am. I would say I chased heavily after it as a 'Loki' fan.

I love that line, 'Lokis always survive.' That idea goes across all our characters who are Lokis.

I've always loved the editing process.

I love Marvel, and I was just so excited to have a chance to direct for them.

Basically, I love Loki, and I found out they were making a show about him.

He Who Remains is in the comics, but the version in our show was very different.

Nothing has prepared me better for working with Marvel than playing tabletop games with my friends. It definitely taught me how to have a good poker face. You have to hide your hand - and sometimes lie.