Quotes by Christopher McQuarrie

About Christopher McQuarrie:

Christopher McQuarrie is an American screenwriter, director and producer. A regular collaborator of director Bryan Singer, he co-wrote the screenplay of Singer's Public Access, wrote the screenplay for The Usual Suspects, co-wrote and produced Valkyrie and co-wrote Jack the Giant Slayer and Edge of Tomorrow.
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I'm saying, let's learn to reacquire a respect for the power of guns. This culture is so indifferent and disrespectful of guns that we should be terrified.

Christopher McQuarrie

My films do very well on home video.

Christopher McQuarrie

History tends to take the simplest possible view. As soon as you start to scratch the surface of any historical event, it starts to become more and more complicated, which is not the stuff of Hollywood films. Complications tend to break down the budg...

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

Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.

Christopher McQuarrie

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.

Christopher McQuarrie

Oh my God, you look at all the uniforms in Star Wars, and it's all Nazi iconography.

Christopher McQuarrie

The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don't think you could make movies exclusively where there was no violence.

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

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

While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.

Christopher McQuarrie

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

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 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

I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.

Christopher McQuarrie

I've always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular.

Christopher McQuarrie

What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material.

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

There is no 'Top Gun 2' in which Maverick is not the starring role.

Christopher McQuarrie

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

Christopher McQuarrie

Author Bio

  • NameChristopher McQuarrie
  • DescriptionAmerican screenwriter, producer and director
  • Born1968
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Film Director; Screenwriter; Film Producer
  • WorksKeyser Söze
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Writing (Original Screenplay)