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

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

- Christopher Mcquarrie

When you sit and watch the film with an audience, the focus groups and the cards and all of that is the less what you're worrying about. When you wat…

- 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

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

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

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

- Christopher Mcquarrie