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" Amazon may be the only studio that's run by people who come out of making independent movies, real hands-on moviemaking. "
Doug Liman
People
Run
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" I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don't go down dark alleys, but if you're making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation. "
Doug Liman
Think
Great
Character
" I always wanted to make a 'James Bond' film, and they only seemed to hire British directors, and I'd made 'Swingers' - they were never going to hire me for a 'James Bond' film off 'Swingers.' "
Doug Liman
Going
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Me
" What I really found was that the one similarity between 'Covert Affairs' and 'Fair Game' is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy. "
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Love
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Life
" I really love the movies of Katherine Hepburn, movies like 'The African Queen.' I love 'Midnight Run' and I suppose, to pick something out of a different genre, I love 'Aliens.' "
Doug Liman
Run
Queen
Like
" 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.' "
Doug Liman
Cruise
Going
Like
" We love movies like 'Edge of Tomorrow.' It's why we go to the movies, and it's why we make movies. "
Doug Liman
Why
Movies
Love
" I've really pushed the limits of what you can get away with at big studios, and I've been extremely well-supported. "
Doug Liman
You
Away
Been
" I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film. "
Doug Liman
Politics
Film
Feel
" Somehow super power and hero are so synonymous that they get combined into one word, 'superhero,' whereas I'm kind of more interested in separating those two ideas out. You have characters with super powers who may or may not be heroic, because human beings aren't all heroic. I tend to be drawn to antiheros. "
Doug Liman
Kind
Hero
You
" My older brother took me to Woody Allen double features when I was still teething. "
Doug Liman
Me
Double
Took
" I had one scene in 'Invisible' with 12 actors delivering dialog at the same time. "
Doug Liman
Time
Invisible
Same
" When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James Bond pay a phone bill?' It sounds trite, but it became the foundation of that franchise. "
Doug Liman
Identity
Phone
Bond
" Flying small airplanes is not like being on airlines. "
Doug Liman
Being
Like
Small
" When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I respect - basically, a 40-bloc radius from my apartment in Manhattan. "
Doug Liman
Respect
Friends
Play
" I live in New York City, and I'm making huge action movies. The people that make huge action movies live in L.A., and they're surrounded by other people who make huge action movies. I'm surrounded by people making documentaries! "
Doug Liman
Live
City
Action
" I chose 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' specifically 'cause I had just made 'The Bourne Identity' and made a film that glamorized being an action hero, and I wanted to make the exact opposite. I wanted to make a movie that glamorized maintaining a marriage, and that made the action hero part seem easy and made the marriage part seem hard. "
Doug Liman
Easy
Marriage
Identity
" I like to keep my options open. I'm known for changing my mind. "
Doug Liman
Mind
Changing
Like
" I understand that it's a huge luxury for people to dwell on the problems in Washington. Things have to be pretty tidy in your own life that you have the time to worry about what's going on in Washington. Most of us spend our time worrying about the things that are directly around us: our love lives, our careers, and our banking accounts. "
Doug Liman
You
Time
Problems
" 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. "
Doug Liman
Doing
Dumb
Way
" One thing about pushing yourself outside your comfort zone is that you're going to make mistakes, and you're going to fall flat on your face sometimes. "
Doug Liman
Yourself
Comfort Zone
Fall
" The system did not want me to make 'Go.' And I sort of stood up to the system and made the movie I wanted to make, and the fact that I did that and I'm proud of the movie means I'm really proud of myself when I look back on that. "
Doug Liman
Back
Look
Me
" In 'The Bourne Identity,' I wanted to give the audience the feeling of being in the car with Jason Bourne, not just watching him drive but be in the car with him, and 'The Wall' is the continuation of that immersive filmmaking style. Where you're trapped behind the wall with Aaron Taylor-Johnson - for better or worse, you're trapped there with him. "
Doug Liman
Identity
Style
Better
" I subscribe to the school that there are no dumb questions. "
Doug Liman
Subscribe
School
Dumb
" Finding original source material is not easy, but when something special like 'Edge of Tomorrow' comes along, everybody recognized it. I wasn't swimming against the stream. Warner Brothers immediately supported it, Tom Cruise signed on instantly; Emily Blunt, who was our first choice, signed on immediately. "
Doug Liman
Tomorrow
Finding
Swimming
" Antiheroes who are sort of honest to themselves are the ones you root for. Like, Barry Seal isn't trying to be anything other than he is. He isn't fooling anybody per se. "
Doug Liman
Trying
Like
You
" 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. "
Doug Liman
Wall
View
War
" I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character. "
Doug Liman
Heart
History
Real
" Normally in spy movies, the person that the hero deals with is at the centre of power, surrounded by video screens, and they're old and grizzled. I'm no stranger to that dynamic. "
Doug Liman
Power
Hero
Movies
" I have a rebellious nature, and being told no is almost the surest way to get me to do something. "
Doug Liman
Get
Almost
Way
" To be honest, when I started watching VR content, I was mostly disappointed and thought people could do better - not that different from when I set out to make 'Swingers' and thought, 'There's a better way to make an independent film.' Which is why 'Swingers' ended up being so much less expensive than anything like it. "
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People
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