Doug Liman Quotes
In 'The Bourne Identity,' I wanted to give the audience the feeling of being in the car with Jason Bourne, not just watching him drive but be in the car with him, and 'The Wall' is the continuation of that immersive filmmaking style. Where you're trapped behind the wall with Aaron Taylor-Johnson - for better or worse, you're trapped there with him.
Quotes to Explore
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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While the protection of speech is at the bedrock of our democracy, it's critical as a nation that we exercise our right every day - and that includes embracing and engaging with those we may not agree with.
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I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
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Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.
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Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.
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I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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The end of 2016, Mariah Carey got on stage, and it was mean. The technical difficulties that she came across, now everybody think that she was lost.
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You know, when you run you got to be all in and you take risks of winning and losing.
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The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.
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When you work at 'The Wall Street Journal,' the coins of the realm are truth and trust - the latter flowing exclusively from the former.
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In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.
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In 'The Bourne Identity,' I wanted to give the audience the feeling of being in the car with Jason Bourne, not just watching him drive but be in the car with him, and 'The Wall' is the continuation of that immersive filmmaking style. Where you're trapped behind the wall with Aaron Taylor-Johnson - for better or worse, you're trapped there with him.
