Doug Liman Quotes
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I always wanted to make big action movies as a kid, and that was my dream. In a way, 'Swingers' was the thing I suffered through the most doing because of all that dialog, so I could eventually be allowed to do a big dumb action movie, honestly.
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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.'
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I've really pushed the limits of what you can get away with at big studios, and I've been extremely well-supported.
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The one thing about reality is sometimes it gives you material that is wilder than some of your wildest imagination could come up with.
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'Swingers' was always set in another world.
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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.
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I subscribe to the school that there are no dumb questions.
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Being on a commercial airplane is actually one of the safest places you can be on the planet.
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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.
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I'm really drawn to adventure, and characters being plucked from normal life and sent on extraordinary adventures.
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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.
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I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.
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We love movies like 'Edge of Tomorrow.' It's why we go to the movies, and it's why we make movies.
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It causes havoc on set anytime a director wants to go backward rather than forward.
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VR is so immersive, and when it works, it draws you into the story in a way that is truly unique and powerful.
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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.
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I'm really anxious not to repeat what I've done before, to keep pushing and learning.
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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.'