Christopher McQuarrie Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

“Action to me is something very fun to shoot.”

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

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

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

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

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

“I love traveling around promoting different movies because I'm always looking at different places, and I always walk around to see the city.”

“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.”