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" I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be. "
Doug Liman
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" I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I made 'The Bourne Identity,' and ultimately the impact of that film was that it changed the 'James Bond' franchise. "
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" Being on a commercial airplane is actually one of the safest places you can be on the planet. "
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" I have a rebellious nature, and being told no is almost the surest way to get me to do something. "
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" I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film. "
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" Aaron Taylor-Johnson and John Cena, in 'The Wall,' are superheroes. They're very grounded, but the amount of training and stuff that soldiers bring to the field, they're like Iron Man. "
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" 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' - every scene is from those characters' point of view. They're in literally every scene, very unusual in a big studio film. "
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" 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. "
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" Ultimately, if you look at the characters in my films, you'll see a lot of similarities going all the way back to 'Swingers' with Vince Vaughn's character. "
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" Even more than 'Swingers,' 'Go', for me, defines my career. "
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" I've always been interested in giving the audience a first-person experience in my movies. "
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" The one thing about reality is sometimes it gives you material that is wilder than some of your wildest imagination could come up with. "
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" I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio. "
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" On 'Edge of Tomorrow,' we discovered that movie while we were making it. "
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Edge
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" We love movies like 'Edge of Tomorrow.' It's why we go to the movies, and it's why we make movies. "
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" It causes havoc on set anytime a director wants to go backward rather than forward. "
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Director
Go
" I like to keep my options open. I'm known for changing my mind. "
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Changing
Like
" I went to USC film school, briefly, which is a very traditional film school. "
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School
Which
" I've been really lucky in terms of the people I've gotten to work with. "
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Terms
People
Really
" The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make. "
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Movie
End
" 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. "
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Marriage
Identity
" There would be no Marvel without 'Swingers'; there would be no Jon Favreau directing 'Iron Man,' no Robert Downey Jr. playing Iron Man; no 'Avengers.' "
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Playing
Man
Iron
" 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. "
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Problems
" 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. "
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" With VR, you are directing in a 360-degree environment. The biggest challenge is that the viewer can look anywhere. They might look at the the weakest moments, the very things you edit for TV. You don't control where they look. "
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Challenge
" When I set out to make 'Bourne Identity,' my main goal for the franchise was to create something where it feels like you're in the action. You're not just passively watching it from far away. That's something that I have constantly aspired to do - even in 'Swingers,' to feel like you're Jon Favreau; you're not just watching him. "
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Goal
" 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. "
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Way
" I don't really make movies with an intention other than asking myself, 'Do I love the character, and do I love the story?' "
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" The beating heart of your story... that's not what shows up in a trailer. The other stuff is what shows up in a trailer, because that's what gets people in to the seats, and that's how studios make their money. "
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People
Money
Heart
" I thought I was done making CIA movies after 'The Bourne Identity.' I really had used my father's work in Iran-Contra on 'The Bourne Identity.' You get one experience like that in your life where you have personal exposure to something, and you put it in a movie. That's it. "
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Experience
" 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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