Quotes by Christopher Mcquarrie - Page 1

Scripts don't get movies made.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Scripts
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My films do very well on home video.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Home
Film
Video
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'The Way of the Gun' I wrote in five days.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Gun
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Action to me is something very fun to shoot.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Action
Fun
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Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Watches
Way
Writing
Directing
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Ideally, I'd like to have a movie that people like and makes money.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Ideally
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There is no 'Top Gun 2' in which Maverick is not the starring role.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Gun
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I always feel like an outsider. I'll always feel like the nerd at the party.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Nerd
Feel Always Like
Outsider
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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 / Screenwriter
Big Fan
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Oh my God, you look at all the uniforms in Star Wars, and it's all Nazi iconography.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Iconography
Uniforms
Wars
Oh My God
Star Wars
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What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Remake
Package
Preexisting
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Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Dog
Hollywood
Success Is
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A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Face Value
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I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Novelists
Writing
Years
Originally
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I am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Not Interested
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While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Boys
Mind
Writing
Voracious
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If you're surrounded by good people and you're really honest with yourself, you'll be delivered.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Honest
Ifs
People
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Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Knowledge
Harder
Freely
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The challenge in most car chases is you're trying to hide the fact that it's not the actor driving.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Hide
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I've always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Afghanistan
Fascinated
Navy
Seals
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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.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Directed
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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 / Screenwriter
Evil
Ideas
Sake
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I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Anonymously
Watched
Luckily
Rewritten
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With 'Rubicon,' Mark Long and Dan Capel have created the perfect environment for an intense action franchise.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Intense
Dan
Franchise
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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.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Deliverance
Different
Watches
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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.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Deliverance
Meanings
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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 / Screenwriter
Beatty
Deliverance
Describe
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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 / Screenwriter
Film
Shooting
Thinking
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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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Too Much
Way
Writing
Sooner
Directing
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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.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Hiring
Providing
Believe Character I Believe
Fill
Character Believe I Believe
Skeleton
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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.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Conflict
Sides
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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.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Different Places
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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 / Screenwriter
Design
Challenges
Existence
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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 / Screenwriter
Disrespectful
Indifferent
Terrified
Guns
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The one thing that frustrates me more than anything else is that no studio has ever told me to tone down violence. They only ask you to make it more presentable.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Tone
Anything Else
Frustrate
More Than Anything
The One Thing
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Look: the day I've made a movie that I think is really good, I hope I say it out loud so somebody can say, 'Then you probably made the worst movie of your entire career.'
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Loud
Hope Good Your
Entire Career
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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 / Screenwriter
Reflection
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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 / Screenwriter
Adaptation
Crime
Media
Reverence
Ultimate
Screenplay
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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.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Direct
Honestly
Alexander
Work Great Mind
Specifically
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When you sit and watch the film with an audience, the focus groups and the cards and all of that is the less what you're worrying about. When you watch a film with an audience you see what is working and what's not working.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Focus
Groups
Worry
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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.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Allies
Destruction
France
July
Touched
Western
Begun
Contained
Gotta
Peninsula
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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 budget.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Simplest
Budget
Complications
Event
More And More
Scratch
Tends
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When you're making a film, you don't really have time to consider what the whole of your film is. And then, when you're releasing your film and promoting your film, you're looking at it in a different way. Then, as you move away from it, you start to look at it objectively and think, 'What could I have done better?'
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Time Look Better
Objectively
Releasing
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Normally, I tend to be a very binary filmmaker. You give me a problem and a destination and I say, "All right. If you want to get from here to here, there's a series of if/then's that will get you there. And if you have other stuff you want to do along the way, I'll give you all the if/then's that are caused by that."
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Giving
Stuff
Want
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You know that certain things that you use in the film are going to be shown to audiences five hundred times before they ever sit down to watch the movie. So you have to kind of modulate what can I do to give marketing enough material but that I can still withhold certain things so that it's fresh and surprising for the audience coming to see the movie.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Giving
Marketing
Watches
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I've looked at all of Hitler's speeches thinking that there's gotta be one where he's 'I'm Hitler!', but there weren't any. His speeches were all about hope and prosperity - he ran on a platform of peace and prosperity. Hitler speeches that makes him sound like a villain are pretty hard to find, he was very detached from what he was doing, he kept himself compartmentalised from it.
Christopher Mcquarrie / Screenwriter
Sound
Speech
Thinking
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