Doug Liman Quotes
I got in trouble in film school at USC because one of my Super-8 movies there, in the first semester, involved a snowmobile chase scene. I made an action scene, and they were like, 'That wasn't what you were supposed to be doing.'
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.
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I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.
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Teachers need time to engage with colleagues - whether shadowing, mentoring, co-teaching or conferring. They need a voice in school decisions and to be trusted as professionals.
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I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.
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I think that a lot of kids today focus on impressing each other. And while that's really nice, you also have to think about your future, about getting into a good school.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.
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When I finished graduate school, I had a master's of fine arts from a prestigious institution, a manuscript that would eventually become my first published book - and almost no marketable skills.
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I think the biggest difference is in live action, you show up, and there's a set there and a ground to stand on, at least, and in animation, there's kinda nothing. You are making decisions on everything.
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It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.
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I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.
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I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem.
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I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I'm cool with the praise. I'm good.
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Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.
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As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.
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I got in trouble in film school at USC because one of my Super-8 movies there, in the first semester, involved a snowmobile chase scene. I made an action scene, and they were like, 'That wasn't what you were supposed to be doing.'
