Christopher McQuarrie

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

I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I…

— Christopher McQuarrie

Ideally, I'd like to have a movie that people like and makes money.

— Christopher McQuarrie

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

— Christopher McQuarrie

Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.

— Christopher McQuarrie

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

— Christopher McQuarrie

Scripts don't get movies made.

— Christopher McQuarrie

Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said…

— Christopher McQuarrie

I think it's a lot easier to tell a war story about two sides of a conflict with one another as opposed…

— Christopher McQuarrie

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

— Christopher McQuarrie

When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.

— Christopher McQuarrie

History tends to take the simplest possible view. As soon as you start to scratch the surface of any historical event, it…

— Christopher McQuarrie

When you sit and watch the film with an audience, the focus groups and the cards and all of that is the…

— Christopher McQuarrie

I'm saying, let's learn to reacquire a respect for the power of guns. This culture is so indifferent and disrespectful of guns…

— Christopher McQuarrie

I'm a big fan of the movies of the '60s, more than a fan of the movies of the '70s.

— Christopher McQuarrie

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

— 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

Normally, I tend to be a very binary filmmaker. You give me a problem and a destination and I say, "All right.…

— Christopher McQuarrie

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

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

— Christopher McQuarrie

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

— 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…

— Christopher McQuarrie