Doug Liman Quotes
Normally, the action is just a gratuitous thing. In the case of Bourne, he was going to learn about himself in the action scenes.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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I have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.
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I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if there are 20 girls there, it's just unbelievable. The growth of the sport is just incredible.
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Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.
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I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
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I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.
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People don't actually want to think about their own health and don't take action until they are sick. Yet employers are very motivated to get their employees healthy, since they bear most of the burden of their health care costs.
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I look at the action scenes as placeholders when I arrive on a script, knowing that I'm going to expand on them when I understand the constraints of the movie, the locations of where we're shooting, the abilities of the actors, and where we want to go with the characters.
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I'm looking to do an action film where I can run with my shirt off and a gun in my hand; and do like a 'Taken' role and get up on one knee and kill the bad guy.
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If significant amounts of time go by without suspenseful action - which is often most powerfully motivated by backstory - the story loses momentum, and readers lose interest.
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I play sports - like, I play a little bit of tennis, swimming, like a normal kid. I watch movies.
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Normally, the action is just a gratuitous thing. In the case of Bourne, he was going to learn about himself in the action scenes.
