Christopher McQuarrie Quotes
Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.
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At times, my very own media makes me cringe, and occasionally out loud. By the way, nothing clears the head like an out-loud cringe.
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As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.
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In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.
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This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.
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Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.
