To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet anoth…

- Christopher Mcquarrie

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

- Christopher Mcquarrie

The biggest challenge is not coming up with the stunt, the biggest challenge is designing a sequence around it that sort of justifies its existence.

- Christopher Mcquarrie

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

- Christopher Mcquarrie

I used to be a die-hard defender of physical film, which I still am. I love shooting on physical film and I think it's great.

- Christopher Mcquarrie

Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.

- Christopher Mcquarrie

Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.

- Christopher Mcquarrie

My films do very well on home video.

- Christopher Mcquarrie

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.

- Christopher Mcquarrie