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38 quotes by Christopher McQuarrie

Christopher McQuarrie (born 1968) 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. McQuarrie won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Usual Suspects. His greatest commercial success was The...
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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.

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

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

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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... →

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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... →

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A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.

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Action to me is something very fun to shoot.

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Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

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

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For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story.

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I always feel like an outsider. I'll always feel like the nerd at the party.

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I am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period.

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I love films like 'Deliverance' where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.

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