Doug Liman Quotes

It causes havoc on set anytime a director wants to go backward rather than forward.

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• I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Think
  • Three
  • Mexican

• A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Good
  • Story
  • Now

• I always put my boxing first.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Always
  • First
  • Boxing

• The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as something that concerns every one of us in our daily lives has been very widely aroused; and the broad line of its future development are already clearly discernible.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Future
  • Daily
  • Architecture

• I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Love
  • Need
  • Marry

• In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Fun
  • Myself
  • Find

• I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Friends
  • Artists

• I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • People
  • Good
  • Problem

• One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Children
  • Home
  • Happy

• The championship always goes to the team that wins the most rounds and is the most prepared. I think everybody on our team works hard towards keeping that goal. Time will tell if we're prepared or not.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Time
  • Team
  • Goal

• Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Myself
  • Sure

• Unfortunately, Poots is the name that I've been graced with for my life, but it's not short for anything - apart from Imogen Poots.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Short

• Change the way we all talk to each other about our mental health.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Change
  • Health
  • Talk

• I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Up
  • Words
  • Know

• I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Hate
  • Being
  • Had

• Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Parents
  • Know
  • Push

• Finding animals that make light in the ocean is easy. Just drag a net through the water anywhere in the upper 3000 feet, and as many as 80-90% of the animals you catch can make light. The biomimetic lure that I developed imitates one of these - a common deep sea jellyfish called Atolla.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Light
  • Water
  • Deep

• I've not come to defeat or to put down anyone... I've come to win the hearts of the people of Rajkot. People should recognize the character of Congressmen who deprive people of Rajkot of water.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Character
  • Water

• I want to be very clear here - a politics that’s based solely on tribe and ethnicity is a politics that's doomed to tear a country apart.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country

• I remember, as a kid, thinking more about, you know, watching the world go by and being amazed by how both complex but consistent and elegant it was. You know, why, you know, when you put that cold glass of water on the table, it kind of warms up at a very predictable way.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that a woman's value is primarily attached to her looks and deferential behaviour, it's the threat of sexually degrading insults that help to keep her in check.

  

  Clementine Ford
  • Women
  • Kind
  • Values

• I actually fell asleep during one take with Jeffrey Wright because I relaxed myself so much. I just stayed so still that I just nodded off, and kind of snapped back into it in the middle of the scene.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Scene
  • Relaxed
  • Snapped

• It causes havoc on set anytime a director wants to go backward rather than forward.

  

  Doug Liman