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 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

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

To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

- Doug Liman

The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.

- 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…

- Doug Liman

It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.

- 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…

- Doug Liman