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?’ Christopher McQuarrie Read Quote
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. Christopher McQuarrie Read Quote
Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it. Christopher McQuarrie Read Quote
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. Christopher McQuarrie Read Quote
When you’ve written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it’s pretty boring. Christopher McQuarrie Read Quote
What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material. Christopher McQuarrie Read Quote
I’ve always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular. Christopher McQuarrie Read Quote
A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they’re just not gonna work as films. Christopher McQuarrie Read Quote
For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story. Christopher McQuarrie Read Quote
I love films like ‘Deliverance’ where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings. Christopher McQuarrie Read Quote
