Words matter. These are the best Christopher McQuarrie Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Look: the day I’ve made a movie that I think is really good, I hope I say it out loud so somebody can say, ‘Then you probably made the worst movie of your entire career.’
I’ve always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular.
I believe that as a writer and a director, you’re only providing the skeleton of a character, and you’re hiring actors to fill it out.
Oh my God, you look at all the uniforms in Star Wars, and it’s all Nazi iconography.
Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.
‘The Way of the Gun’ I wrote in five days.
What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material.
A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they’re just not gonna work as films.
I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on ‘Alexander the Great’ that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else.
I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.
When you’ve written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it’s pretty boring.
My films do very well on home video.
Scripts don’t get movies made.
With ‘Rubicon,’ Mark Long and Dan Capel have created the perfect environment for an intense action franchise.
While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.
The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don’t think you could make movies exclusively where there was no violence.
I love traveling around promoting different movies because I’m always looking at different places, and I always walk around to see the city.
The one thing that frustrates me more than anything else is that no studio has ever told me to tone down violence. They only ask you to make it more presentable.
To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There’s even reverence to a screenplay.
History tends to take the simplest possible view. As soon as you start to scratch the surface of any historical event, it starts to become more and more complicated, which is not the stuff of Hollywood films. Complications tend to break down the budget.
