Doug Liman Quotes
For me, the scale of the budget is part of the creative process. 'Swingers' is the movie it is because we made it for exactly the right budget. Had it been made for a higher number, it would not have been as imaginative as we had to make it, given the budget constraints we had.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.
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I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I don't want to get fat.
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When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object?
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A woman can look incredibly sexy in a black suit.
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Professional golfer... what a life.
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As Americans, we are proud that we are a country that people run to, not from.
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There's no deadline that a movie has to be made by. We have to believe that we have served the responsibility, however long it takes us to get to that point.
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There is a woman named Wendy Wood, who did a study when she was at Duke, and she followed around college students to try to figure out how much of their day was decision-making versus how much was habit. And what she found was that about 45 percent of all the behaviors that someone did in a day was habit.
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For me, the scale of the budget is part of the creative process. 'Swingers' is the movie it is because we made it for exactly the right budget. Had it been made for a higher number, it would not have been as imaginative as we had to make it, given the budget constraints we had.
