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
When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.
There is no 'Top Gun 2' in which Maverick is not the starring role.
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'm a big fan of the movies of the '60s, more than a fan of the movies of the '70s.
Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.
I love films like 'Deliverance' where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.
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.
A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.
'The Way of the Gun' I wrote in five days.
I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.
Oh my God, you look at all the uniforms in Star Wars, and it's all Nazi iconography.
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?'
What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material.