Doug Liman Quotes
-
Antiheroes who are sort of honest to themselves are the ones you root for. Like, Barry Seal isn't trying to be anything other than he is. He isn't fooling anybody per se.
-
I'm really drawn to adventure, and characters being plucked from normal life and sent on extraordinary adventures.
-
I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.
-
'Swingers' was always set in another world.
-
The way I see it, the expensive people who get hired when you have money are the fancy people who tell you what you can't do.
-
There would be no Marvel without 'Swingers'; there would be no Jon Favreau directing 'Iron Man,' no Robert Downey Jr. playing Iron Man; no 'Avengers.'
-
I subscribe to the school that there are no dumb questions.
-
Being on a commercial airplane is actually one of the safest places you can be on the planet.
-
It causes havoc on set anytime a director wants to go backward rather than forward.
-
When I read the script of 'The Wall,' I saw how much different the war looks from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.
-
I thought I was done making CIA movies after 'The Bourne Identity.' I really had used my father's work in Iran-Contra on 'The Bourne Identity.' You get one experience like that in your life where you have personal exposure to something, and you put it in a movie. That's it.
-
I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be.
-
If you go to a restaurant with Tom Cruise, it's like walking in with Santa Claus. Everybody is in a better mood because he's there.
-
We love movies like 'Edge of Tomorrow.' It's why we go to the movies, and it's why we make movies.
-
VR is so immersive, and when it works, it draws you into the story in a way that is truly unique and powerful.
-
Given the kind of filmmaker I am, the kind of experiences I've been trying to give audiences, I was drawn to the potential of VR before I even tried watching anything in VR.
-
I've made a career of being a contrarian. If I'm going to work with Tom Cruise, it's my instinct to be like, 'Well, I'm going to do the anti-Tom Cruise movie.'
-
I'm really anxious not to repeat what I've done before, to keep pushing and learning.