Christopher McQuarrie

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. ”

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.' ”

I am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period. ”

The challenge in most car chases is you're trying to hide the fact that it's not the actor driving. ”

Ideally, I'd like to have a movie that people like and makes money. ”

I always feel like an outsider. I'll always feel like the nerd at the party. ”

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. ”

When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring. ”

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 love films like 'Deliverance' where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings. ”