I am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period.
From Christopher McQuarrie
I'm saying, let's learn to reacquire a respect for the power of guns. This culture is so indifferent and disrespectful of guns that we should be terrified.
A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.
What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material.
I've always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular.
While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.
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.
There is no 'Top Gun 2' in which Maverick is not the starring role.
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.
Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.
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