Christopher McQuarrie Quotes

The difficulty of getting a movie made through a major studio is so extreme that when a movie comes out, everyone should give it four stars because it was accomplished.

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

I wrote and directed a movie called 'Two-Bit Waltz.'

It's really hard to sell a script, and it's even harder to get a movie made. It just almost never happens.

I learned that getting a movie made in Hollywood is a near impossibility, and the process can be a wild adventure. TV is a lot more consistently productive - no offense to the beautiful world of feature film.

What I learned from my go-round with 'In the Heights' is that it's tough to make a movie. In Hollywood, even the people in charge have people in charge.

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.

As far as I'm concerned, I make movies.

I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.

You can do a movie and hope it may be great, but until you have seen it, you don't know. I loved 'Rampart.' I love that one called 'The Hi-Low Country' that Steven Frears shot.

The reality is that every movie is a new business. Nobody says, 'Hey, let's go down to the Pantages Theater, I hear a Warner Brothers picture is playing there.' Or, 'Let's go to this theater, I hear the film came in on budget.' It'd be ridiculous.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.

All I know is movies; I went to school, but movies are my reference point for everything. I figured I'd have to P.A. or intern in the art department. Because the filmmaking process is so many people creating to make one piece of magic, so I've always wanted to be involved. With the acting, I doubted it.

I'm trying to make as many films as I can.

I love making movies.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

For me, I try as much as possible to just think about being in the movie theatre, having the lights dim, and what would I want to see on the screen. That puts me in the frame of mind that made me want to be in the movie business to begin with.

I produced and starred in 'Wake the Riderless Horse,' a short film that my buddy wrote and directed.