Quotes by Chris Terrio

About Chris Terrio:

Chris Terrio is an American film director and screenwriter based in New York City. He is best known for writing the screenplay for the 2012 film Argo, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Terrio also won the Writers Guild Award for Best Adapted Screenplay of 2012 and was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, a BAFTA nomination and the 2013 Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Terrio wrote the screenplay for the follow-up to Zack Snyder's Man of Steel, entitled Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice from an earlier draft by David S. Goyer.
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This is the best bad plan we have, sir.

Chris Terrio

The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization.

Chris Terrio

I need eclectic people in my life.

Chris Terrio

You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.

Chris Terrio

In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.

Chris Terrio

And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.

Chris Terrio

Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.

Chris Terrio

In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.

Chris Terrio

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.

Chris Terrio

Author Bio

  • NameChris Terrio
  • DescriptionAmerican film director
  • BornDecember 31, 1976
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Film Producer; Film Director; Writer
  • AwardsWriters Guild Of America Award