John McTiernan Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

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

I had hired Anthony Pellicano to wiretap Charles Roven in the summer of 2000. But I never received a report or specific information.

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

The entertainment is in the presentation.

The point isn't a girl got killed in a shower; it's how did it get photographed that she got killed in a shower?

They were knowingly false, your honor.

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.

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