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Christopher McQuarrie [1968-0] American

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Director, Screenwriter

Christopher McQuarrie is an American screenwriter, director and producer. A regular collaborator of director Bryan Singer, he co-wrote the screenplay of Singer's Public Access, wrote the screenplay for The Usual Suspects, co-wrote and produced Valkyrie and co-wrote Jack the Giant Slayer and Edge of Tomorrow.

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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.	Respect	101
A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.		102
I've always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular.		103
While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.		104
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.		105
What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material.		106
There is no 'Top Gun 2' in which Maverick is not the starring role.		107
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.		108
Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.		109
I love films like 'Deliverance' where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.		110
The challenge in most car chases is you're trying to hide the fact that it's not the actor driving.		111
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.		112
Oh my God, you look at all the uniforms in Star Wars, and it's all Nazi iconography.		113
I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.		114
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.		115
Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.		116
Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.		117
When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.		118
I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.		119
Scripts don't get movies made.		120
For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story.		121
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.		122
With 'Rubicon,' Mark Long and Dan Capel have created the perfect environment for an intense action franchise.		123
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?'		124
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.'		125
The way I like to describe Hollywood today is this: everyone wants to make 'Deliverance,' but no one wants to be Ned Beatty.		126
I am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period.		201
Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.		202
My films do very well on home video.		203
Ideally, I'd like to have a movie that people like and makes money.		204
I always feel like an outsider. I'll always feel like the nerd at the party.		205
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.		206
I'm a big fan of the movies of the '60s, more than a fan of the movies of the '70s.		207
'The Way of the Gun' I wrote in five days.		208
Action to me is something very fun to shoot.		209
I love traveling around promoting different movies because I'm always looking at different places, and I always walk around to see the city.		210
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.		211
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.		212

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