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Christopher McQuarrie Quotes

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.

Christopher McQuarrie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: 1968

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Me Violence You Down More Anything

As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda.

John Engler

Agenda Importance Learned Having

It's getting hard to keep up with all of the news from Washington - witch hunts, conspiracy theories and Republicans tearing each other apart over who is ideologically pure and who is apostate. It's a real set of carnival sideshows.

Andrew Rosenthal

News Washington Hard Real Over Pure

There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.

Anna Chancellor

Shy Certain Amount Terribly

I never thought of us as a punk band, a metal band, or a new wave band. Just as a band band.

Angus Young

Thought Wave New Never Band Punk

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.

John Updike

Walls Door Choices Doors Know Right

I like to see how I can do it for less money.

Stanley Tucci

Money I Can See Like How Less

I'm a sucker when it comes to under-explored human potential and 'stuff that makes you be better.'

Mary H.K. Choi

Potential Better You Human Stuff

I'm not a macho guy. I'm very soft-spoken on the set. But I'm not really intimidated by the process of making movies.

Michael Lehmann

Process Movies Guy Set Making Macho

I founded Eventbrite when I was 25 and had exactly five professional years under my belt. Perspective was lacking; idealistic views were not. I really had no idea what I was getting myself into, and I'm beyond thrilled I took the leap from a comfortable corporate career into the abyss of founder-hood and entrepreneurship.

Julia Hartz

Myself Perspective Career Comfortable

You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.

Jason Aldean

Me Singing You Wall Know Street

You tend to relate to the other person better if you understand their professional needs.

Divyanka Tripathi

Better You Professional Person Needs

I spent some special years in my hometown of El Paso.

Debbie Reynolds

Hometown Special Years Some El Paso