I love Groot so much I get teary eyed when I think of him sometimes. Essentially, all the Guardians start out the movie as bastards - except Groot. He’s an innocent. He’s a hundred percent deadly and a hundred percent sweet. He’s caught up in Rocket’s life, really.

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.

In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.

I always like to think that I make movies that are like Nirvana songs. They have a slow verse and then they pop into high gear and then they go back into slow and then they pop into high gear again.

It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.

The people who gave up their humanity to save their planet was always very interesting to me.

It's definitely not the character who it is in the comics, I'll say that much.