Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.
Christopher McQuarrieThe 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 McQuarrieI was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.
Christopher McQuarrieIf you're surrounded by good people and you're really honest with yourself, you'll be delivered.
Christopher McQuarrieI 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 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