Top 38 Quotes by Christopher McQuarrie

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

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

My films do very well on home video.

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.

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.

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.

I've always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular.

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

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.