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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.
— Christopher McQuarrie
When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.
— Christopher McQuarrie
What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material.
— Christopher McQuarrie
Ideally, I'd like to have a movie that people like and makes money.
— Christopher McQuarrie
Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.
— Christopher McQuarrie
I used to be a die-hard defender of physical film, which I still am. I love shooting on physical film and I think it's great.
— Christopher McQuarrie
There is no 'Top Gun 2' in which Maverick is not the starring role.
— Christopher McQuarrie
I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.
— Christopher McQuarrie
Action to me is something very fun to shoot.
— Christopher McQuarrie
My films do very well on home video.
— Christopher McQuarrie
The biggest challenge is not coming up with the stunt, the biggest challenge is designing a sequence around it that sort of justifies its existence.
— Christopher McQuarrie
If you're surrounded by good people and you're really honest with yourself, you'll be delivered.
— Christopher McQuarrie
Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.
— Christopher McQuarrie
Oh my God, you look at all the uniforms in Star Wars, and it's all Nazi iconography.
— Christopher McQuarrie
The challenge in most car chases is you're trying to hide the fact that it's not the actor driving.
— Christopher McQuarrie
I am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period.
— Christopher McQuarrie
I love films like 'Deliverance' where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.
— Christopher McQuarrie
With 'Rubicon,' Mark Long and Dan Capel have created the perfect environment for an intense action franchise.
— Christopher McQuarrie
I love traveling around promoting different movies because I'm always looking at different places, and I always walk around to see the city.
— Christopher McQuarrie
I've always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular.
— Christopher McQuarrie
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.
— Christopher McQuarrie
I always feel like an outsider. I'll always feel like the nerd at the party.
— Christopher McQuarrie
I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.
— Christopher McQuarrie
For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story.
— Christopher McQuarrie
'The Way of the Gun' I wrote in five days.
— Christopher McQuarrie
Scripts don't get movies made.
— Christopher McQuarrie
While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.
— Christopher McQuarrie
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.
— Christopher McQuarrie
Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.
— Christopher McQuarrie
The way I like to describe Hollywood today is this: everyone wants to make 'Deliverance,' but no one wants to be Ned Beatty.
— Christopher McQuarrie
Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.
— Christopher McQuarrie
Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.
— Christopher McQuarrie
A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.
— Christopher McQuarrie