I love films like 'Deliverance' where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.
From Christopher McQuarrie
The challenge in most car chases is you're trying to hide the fact that it's not the actor driving.
History tends to take the simplest possible view. As soon as you start to scratch the surface of any historical event, it starts to become more and more complicated, which is not the stuff of Hollywood films. Complications tend to break down the budget.
Oh my God, you look at all the uniforms in Star Wars, and it's all Nazi iconography.
I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.
I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else.
Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.
Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.
When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.
I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.
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