Doug Liman Quotes
To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.
Quotes to Explore
-
The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time.
-
I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
-
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
-
Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.
-
I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
-
We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
-
As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
-
The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
-
I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
-
I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
-
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
-
Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
-
I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
-
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
-
In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
-
I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
-
Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
-
A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
-
Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.
-
But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny.
-
I hear it all the time in the street: 'It's the crisp bloke.'
-
My daughter just graduated college and she's a dance major. She's done a couple of dance videos already and won Miss Massachusetts a couple of weeks ago. She's going out for Miss United States the second week of July, out in Las Vegas. She will probably wind up going to New York and trying the Broadway thing.
-
History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.
-
To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.
