Christopher McQuarrie Quotes
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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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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.
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I always feel like an outsider. I'll always feel like the nerd at the party.
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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.
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For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story.
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I've always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular.
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A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.
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You've gotta understand: in July of '44, the Allies were still contained on the peninsula in western France and the destruction of Europe had not really begun. War had not really touched the European continent at that point.
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I love films like 'Deliverance' where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.
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I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.
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'The Way of the Gun' I wrote in five days.
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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.
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I think it's a lot easier to tell a war story about two sides of a conflict with one another as opposed to one side in conflict with itself.
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When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.