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
Normally, I tend to be a very binary filmmaker. You give me a problem and a destination and I say, "All right. If you want to get from here to here, there's a series of if/then's that will get you there. And if you have other stuff you want to do along the way, I'll give you all the if/then's that are caused by that."
You know that certain things that you use in the film are going to be shown to audiences five hundred times before they ever sit down to watch the movie. So you have to kind of modulate what can I do to give marketing enough material but that I can still withhold certain things so that it's fresh and surprising for the audience coming to see the movie.
I'm a big fan of the movies of the '60s, more than a fan of the movies of the '70s.
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'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.
I love films like 'Deliverance' where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.
Oh my God, you look at all the uniforms in Star Wars, and it's all Nazi iconography.
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.
With 'Rubicon,' Mark Long and Dan Capel have created the perfect environment for an intense action franchise.
'The Way of the Gun' I wrote in five days.
The way I like to describe Hollywood today is this: everyone wants to make 'Deliverance,' but no one wants to be Ned Beatty.
I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.
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.
I've always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular.