I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.
I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be. - Doug Liman
I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be.
- Doug Liman
I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span. - Doug Liman
I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.
I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done. - Doug Liman
I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.
If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause th… - Doug Liman
If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause th…
To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic. - Doug Liman
To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.
It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV. - Doug Liman
It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.
The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make. - Doug Liman
The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.
That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking around Paris and shooting wh… - Doug Liman
That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking around Paris and shooting wh…
Once I'm in the editing room, forget about what I intended to shoot. I take a cold, hard look at what I really did shoot, and then I edit that becaus… - Doug Liman
Once I'm in the editing room, forget about what I intended to shoot. I take a cold, hard look at what I really did shoot, and then I edit that becaus…
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