Top 38 Quotes by Christopher McQuarrie

Scripts don't get movies made.

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.

I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.

When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.

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.'

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.

The challenge in most car chases is you're trying to hide the fact that it's not the actor driving.

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

My films do very well on home video.

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