Christopher McQuarrie
Christopher McQuarrie
Christopher McQuarrieis an American screenwriter, director and producer. A regular collaborator of director Bryan Singer, he co-wrote the screenplay of Singer's Public Access, wrote the screenplay for The Usual Suspects, co-wrote and produced Valkyrie and co-wrote Jack the Giant Slayer and Edge of Tomorrow...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth31 May 1968
CityPrinceton Junction, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
My films do very well on home video.
Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.
I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.
With 'Rubicon,' Mark Long and Dan Capel have created the perfect environment for an intense action franchise.
Ideally, I'd like to have a movie that people like and makes money.
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 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.
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.
What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material.
When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.
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?'
I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.