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 McQuarrieSuccess is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.
Christopher McQuarrieI love films like Deliverance where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.
Christopher McQuarrieWhen 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 watch a film with an audience you see what is working and what's not working.
Christopher McQuarrieYou 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.
Christopher McQuarrie