“I love traveling around promoting different movies because I'm always ...” — Christopher McQuarrie Quote

“I love traveling around promoting different movies because I'm always looking at different places, and I always walk around to see the city.”

“I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out.”

“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 another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.”

“I never wanted to be a brand director. I didn't want that kind of stamp. I wanted to be more like Pacino or Dustin Hoffman or Meryl Streep or De Niro - you know, a chameleon as a storyteller - because I love all kinds of movies.”

“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”

“In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. And it'll be to change the color of an actor's tie or change the little smirky thing he's doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit.”