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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NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.
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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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Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
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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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Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.
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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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In the fossil record of our existence, there is no trace of love. You cannot find it held in the earth's crust, waiting to be discovered. The long bones of our ancestors show nothing of their hearts. Their last meal is sometimes preserved in peat or in ice, but their thoughts and feelings are gone.
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We're part of creating this world in which we live, but we're unaware of how we do that or even that we do that.
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I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed.
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I love soccer; I want to be on the field.
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With 'Rubicon,' Mark Long and Dan Capel have created the perfect environment for an intense action franchise.
