The challenge in most car chases is you're trying to hide the fact that it's not the actor driving. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don't… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
The one thing that frustrates me more than anything else is that no studio has ever told me to tone down violence.… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
I am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
When you're making a film, you don't really have time to consider what the whole of your film is. And then, when… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
You've gotta understand: in July of '44, the Allies were still contained on the peninsula in western France and the destruction of… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
Oh my God, you look at all the uniforms in Star Wars, and it's all Nazi iconography. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
History tends to take the simplest possible view. As soon as you start to scratch the surface of any historical event, it… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
I love films like 'Deliverance' where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
Look: the day I've made a movie that I think is really good, I hope I say it out loud so somebody… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
The challenge in most car chases is you're trying to hide the fact that it's not the actor driving. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
“Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Söze.” — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
I always feel like an outsider. I'll always feel like the nerd at the party. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another,… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
If you're surrounded by good people and you're really honest with yourself, you'll be delivered. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
With 'Rubicon,' Mark Long and Dan Capel have created the perfect environment for an intense action franchise. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
You know that certain things that you use in the film are going to be shown to audiences five hundred times before they ever… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
