Doug Liman Quotes
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I love 'Bringing Up Baby.' Anything that Katharine Hepburn's in. I'm committed to the Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn era of filmmaking.
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I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be.
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With VR, you are directing in a 360-degree environment. The biggest challenge is that the viewer can look anywhere. They might look at the the weakest moments, the very things you edit for TV. You don't control where they look.
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It causes havoc on set anytime a director wants to go backward rather than forward.
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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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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'm really drawn to adventure, and characters being plucked from normal life and sent on extraordinary adventures.
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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.
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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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'Swingers' was always set in another world.
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I've always had antiheroes in my film.
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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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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'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.'
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I'm really anxious not to repeat what I've done before, to keep pushing and learning.