Christopher McQuarrie Quotes
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When you're making a film, you don't really have time to consider what the whole of your film is. And then, when you're releasing your film and promoting your film, you're looking at it in a different way. Then, as you move away from it, you start to look at it objectively and think, 'What could I have done better?'
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Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.
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I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.
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While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.
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The challenge in most car chases is you're trying to hide the fact that it's not the actor driving.
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I'm saying, let's learn to reacquire a respect for the power of guns. This culture is so indifferent and disrespectful of guns that we should be terrified.
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Action to me is something very fun to shoot.
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With 'Rubicon,' Mark Long and Dan Capel have created the perfect environment for an intense action franchise.
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Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.
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My films do very well on home video.
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Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.
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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.
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I am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period.
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Ideally, I'd like to have a movie that people like and makes money.
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What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material.
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I love traveling around promoting different movies because I'm always looking at different places, and I always walk around to see the city.
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Oh my God, you look at all the uniforms in Star Wars, and it's all Nazi iconography.
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The way I like to describe Hollywood today is this: everyone wants to make 'Deliverance,' but no one wants to be Ned Beatty.
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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.'
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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.
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There is no 'Top Gun 2' in which Maverick is not the starring role.
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Scripts don't get movies made.
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I always feel like an outsider. I'll always feel like the nerd at the party.
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I'm a big fan of the movies of the '60s, more than a fan of the movies of the '70s.