Scripts don't get movies made.... -Christopher McQuarrie

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Scripts don't get movies made.

Christopher McQuarrie , Director
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American film director and screenwriter, known for his work on movies like "The Usual Suspects" and "Mission: Impossible" series.

Christopher McQuarrie Quotes to Explore

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 ...
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'm a big fan of the movies of the '60s, more than a fan of the movies of the '70s....
Scripts don't get movies made....
The challenge in most car chases is you're trying to hide the fact that it's not the actor driving....
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 terri...
Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely....

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I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids....
Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised....
People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish t...
During the '90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studio...
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 ...
In the kind of films that I do, there is an extremely limited number of people that can improvise. The reason the ensemble continues in the movies is ...
I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special eff...
I like superhero films, and I love Star Wars movies, but I want to make sure there's a wide diaspora of films getting made....
I'd loved 'Iron Man,' you know, with a passion. I thought that was the most fresh, cool thing, in terms of superhero movies, that I'd seen in a long t...
I loved all movies, literally. I certainly loved 'Shane' and 'Roxie Hart.' Later on, when I was less of a kid, I loved 'L'Avventura' and 'Persona' and...