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" Flying small airplanes is not like being on airlines. "

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" In hindsight, everything in my life looks a little rosy. But the reality is that with, say, 'Swingers,' when we finished, it was considered a total failure. "

" 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. "

" My older brother took me to Woody Allen double features when I was still teething. "

" 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. "

" I was a troublemaker. For a long time, I didn't fit in. "

" I never want to repeat myself. I can't imagine anything else as upsetting as realizing I'm redoing something I did before. For some reason, when it comes to film, I'm very good at not repeating myself. Even though in the rest of my life, I'm constantly repeating my mistakes. "

" I got in trouble in film school at USC because one of my Super-8 movies there, in the first semester, involved a snowmobile chase scene. I made an action scene, and they were like, 'That wasn't what you were supposed to be doing.' "

" At the end of the day, the less money you have, the easier it is to make a movie. "

" 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. "

" I think that I learned a studio system prefers a sort of professionalism from the director. "

" I think of myself as making independent films within the studio system. Yes, I've made movies with significantly larger budgets, and I've also made movies with smaller budgets. "

" 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. "

" In particular, I'm drawn to the stories that have big, high concepts and real characters at their heart. And I love where those two worlds meet, and 'Edge of Tomorrow' is the perfect canvas to explore that. "

" I started making Super 8-mm films when I was about six years old and just never stopped. It was always just a hobby, but it's one of the few hobbies that can actually become a career. You know what? I think it was my plan from when I was six that this is what I was going to do. "

" I always liked photography in film - I studied photography growing up. I like the medium of film; I like physically holding 35-mm film. I like the way it looks, the quality when it's projected. I like the way it frames real life. "

" 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. "

" The more real I got on 'The Bourne Identity,' the more interesting it got. So 'Fair Game' was the chance to go a few more steps in that direction. In fact, I discovered this whole other world that I had ignored in the 'Bourne' franchise, which is the domestic life of a spy, and how you make the two halves of your life coexist. "

" Being on a commercial airplane is actually one of the safest places you can be on the planet. "

" There's no reason my films can't work as hard as VR does to hook an audience and never let them go, so I think that that it turns the volume up a little bit on storytelling. The same way when I was doing commercials and then I went and shot 'Go,' and 'Go' has a level of pace that is unlike any of my other movies. "

" I have a rebellious nature, and being told no is almost the surest way to get me to do something. "

" It's no secret that my process is a little bit loose and can be a little bit infuriating to a studio if they don't know what they're signing up for. "

" I really have thought about immersive storytelling my whole career, so when I first heard about VR, I was like, 'Oh, this sounds like it's for me.' "

" I do take things away from reading reviews. I think they keep you honest. "

" I'll just say that there are certain people who continue to be hired in Hollywood, and that leaves me truly shocked. "

" When you have films like 'Bourne' that succeed, not only does it beget sequels, but it begets people taking chances. "

" I had one scene in 'Invisible' with 12 actors delivering dialog at the same time. "

" My characters in my movies are all flawed. You'll probably never see Tom Hanks in a Doug Liman film. He plays, you know, very earnest and unflawed. "

" I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that. "

" It causes havoc on set anytime a director wants to go backward rather than forward. "