Doug Liman Quotes
I never want to repeat myself. I can't imagine anything else as upsetting as realizing I'm redoing something I did before. For some reason, when it comes to film, I'm very good at not repeating myself. Even though in the rest of my life, I'm constantly repeating my mistakes.
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But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.
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My father had very little formal education.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
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You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
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I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.
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Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
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I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.
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I put my family first, and that's why for a long time, you didn't see me dating or hear about me dating or hear about me out. I had other focuses in my life, and that would be my family and my work.
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You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.
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I'm glad to have grown up in the countryside and played, and had to use my imagination rather than a TV and had to learn to act the hard way, to have dealt with the rejection. It's a life as well as a job, at the end the day, we all have to work for a living, but we have to have a life as well.
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I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
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I never want to repeat myself. I can't imagine anything else as upsetting as realizing I'm redoing something I did before. For some reason, when it comes to film, I'm very good at not repeating myself. Even though in the rest of my life, I'm constantly repeating my mistakes.
