49 Quotes by Christopher McQuarrie

There is a natural order. The way things are meant to be. An order that says that the good guys always win. That you die when it's your time, or you have it coming. That the ending is always happy, if only for someone else. Now at some point it became clear to us that our path had been chosen and we had nothing to offer the world. Our options narrowing down to petty crime or minimum wage. So, we stepped off the path, and went looking for the fortune that we knew was looking for us.

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

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

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.'

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

History tends to take the simplest possible view. As soon as you start to scratch the surface of any historical event, it starts to become more and more complicated, which is not the stuff of Hollywood films. Complications tend to break down the budget.

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

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

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.