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" A movie like 'Edge of Tomorrow' is so huge and complex - the spectacle and action is all-consuming - and that on its own is enough of a reason for a lot of people to see it. "
Doug Liman
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" Trust me: you make a movie about time travel, and you know for a fact humans will never travel through time. The paradoxes that come up just from trying to tell a story with time travel really illuminates the fact that it's impossible. It will never happen. We can barely get through a movie that involves time travel. "
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" For me, the scale of the budget is part of the creative process. 'Swingers' is the movie it is because we made it for exactly the right budget. Had it been made for a higher number, it would not have been as imaginative as we had to make it, given the budget constraints we had. "
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" I'll just say that there are certain people who continue to be hired in Hollywood, and that leaves me truly shocked. "
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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 realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span. "
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