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chris terrio

(1976) Screenwriter

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chris terrio is a screenwriter.

Quick Facts About chris terrio

Born: December 31, 1976
Profession: Screenwriter

About chris terrio

[Wikidata] American film director... | [Wikipedia] Chris Terrio is an American screenwriter and film director. 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 Glo

Quotes by chris terrio

“This is the best bad plan we have, sir.”

Argo

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

Bigs

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

Cia

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I need eclectic people in my life.

Eclectic

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In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live…

Crisis

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The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The…

Allegory

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

Cinema

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Everyone is doing their job within a system. Even the revolutionaries are in a system.

Jobs

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You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love…

Depressing

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You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You…

Character

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