American - Director | 1968 -
Scripts don't get movies made.
Christopher McQuarrie
MoviesGetMadeScripts
What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material.
BrandNowPackageSomeMovieRemake
For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story.
StoryYouAudienceEverythingPay
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.
MeViolenceYouDownMoreAnything
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.
PowerRespectCultureSayingLearn
There is no 'Top Gun 2' in which Maverick is not the starring role.
GunTopRoleMaverickWhich
With 'Rubicon,' Mark Long and Dan Capel have created the perfect environment for an intense action franchise.
ActionEnvironmentLongPerfectMark
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?'
TimeLookingStartThinkBetterYou
A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.
WorkValueFaceYouTakeJust
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.
MeMediaCrimeReverenceEvenMovie
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.'
GoodHopeDayThinkYouLook
The way I like to describe Hollywood today is this: everyone wants to make 'Deliverance,' but no one wants to be Ned Beatty.
TodayHollywoodWayEveryoneLike
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Christopher McQuarrie quotes