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What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material.

~Christopher Mcquarrie

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

~Christopher Mcquarrie

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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.

~Christopher Mcquarrie

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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.

~Christopher Mcquarrie

Topics: Culture Disrespectful Guns Indifferent Learn Power Respect Saying Should Terrified

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There is no 'Top Gun 2' in which Maverick is not the starring role.

~Christopher Mcquarrie

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With 'Rubicon,' Mark Long and Dan Capel have created the perfect environment for an intense action franchise.

~Christopher Mcquarrie

Topics: Action Created Dan Environment Franchise Intense Long Mark Perfect

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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?'

~Christopher Mcquarrie

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A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.

~Christopher Mcquarrie

Topics: Books Face Face Value Films Gonna Just Lot Take Them Value Work You

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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.

~Christopher Mcquarrie

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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.'

~Christopher Mcquarrie

Topics: Career Day Entire Entire Career Good Hope Look Loud Made Movie Out Really Say Somebody Then Think Worst You Your I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: Unknown

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