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 appl…

- Paul Wernick

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 …

- Paul Wernick

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 difficu…

- Paul Wernick

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…

- Paul Wernick

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

- Paul Wernick

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 Deadp…

- Paul Wernick

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

- Paul Wernick

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

- Paul Wernick

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

- Paul Wernick