Christopher McQuarrie

Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely. ”

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. ”

Action to me is something very fun to shoot. ”

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

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. ”

My films do very well on home video. ”

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

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?' ”

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

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. ”