“You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas...” — John McTiernan Quote

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.

The entertainment is in the presentation.

In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground mush.

Nothing unifies people more than music, more than that universal riff. The one thing that unifies us and the hope that we can have, especially being an artist, is that we can create music that can build bridges and smash down very bad ideas.

Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.

Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.

Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.