Christopher McQuarrie Quotes

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• What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material.
• For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story.
• 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…
• Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.
• I am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period.
• Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.
• My films do very well on home video.
• Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.
• Action to me is something very fun to shoot.
• 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…
• While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.
• I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.
• Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

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