Christopher McQuarrie Quotes
With 'Rubicon,' Mark Long and Dan Capel have created the perfect environment for an intense action franchise.
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On 'Rogue One,' we had these sets with tiny little buttons that would light up when you pressed them, and screens full of graphics, and it really felt like you were driving a spaceship. The level of detail; you'll be two meters away from where the action is, but there'll be a little detail there just in case the camera catches it.
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We have a structural problem because you can simultaneously understand the medium to long-term risks of climate change and also come to the conclusion that it is in your short-term economic interest to invest in oil and gas. Which is why, you know, anybody who tells you that the market is going to fix this on its own is lying to you.
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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.
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In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that.
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.
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I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.
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Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'
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In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
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I would like to see people dreaming of striking out on their own into some other country or their own, wherever they feel the action is, in the hope of an exciting and rewarding career.
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I like conflict - someone who challenges me, someone who I can look up to, someone who can keep me in check. Love has to be extraordinary; otherwise, there's no point in it. I just haven't met anyone who's made me feel that way.
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We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.
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There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.
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These dangers inherent in the very idea of humanitarianism and altruism, dangers which have to-day produced their full harvest of human waste, of inequality and inefficiency, were fully recognized in the last century at the moment when such ideas were first put into practice.
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Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.
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I think it's the hardest thing to remind yourself you have to do it the way you would do it. Because no one else is going to do it that way. If you don't do it, then no one else will - and the world won't see it.
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Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become.
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With 'Rubicon,' Mark Long and Dan Capel have created the perfect environment for an intense action franchise.
