Christopher McQuarrie
Christopher McQuarrie
Christopher McQuarrieis an American screenwriter, director and producer. A regular collaborator of director Bryan Singer, he co-wrote the screenplay of Singer's Public Access, wrote the screenplay for The Usual Suspects, co-wrote and produced Valkyrie and co-wrote Jack the Giant Slayer and Edge of Tomorrow...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth31 May 1968
CityPrinceton Junction, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I love films like 'Deliverance' where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.
I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else.
I'm a big fan of the movies of the '60s, more than a fan of the movies of the '70s.
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 am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period.
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.
Oh my God, you look at all the uniforms in Star Wars, and it's all Nazi iconography.
The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don't think you could make movies exclusively where there was no violence.
The challenge in most car chases is you're trying to hide the fact that it's not the actor driving.
You've gotta understand: in July of '44, the Allies were still contained on the peninsula in western France and the destruction of Europe had not really begun. War had not really touched the European continent at that point.
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.
For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story.
Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.