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" I like making movies that have some of the qualities of first-person shooter games. That was very important to me for the 'Bourne' franchise. "

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" So many of Spielberg's films inspired my imagination growing up. And then there are British films like 'The Full Monty' and 'Waking Ned Devine' that took me to places I really loved, with characters I just thought were amazing. But the films of Luc Besson showed me France - a really cool side of France. "

" I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span. "

" 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. "

" Normally, the action is just a gratuitous thing. In the case of Bourne, he was going to learn about himself in the action scenes. "

" All of my fellow directors, I think, would agree that in whatever medium you are working, the challenges and obstacles push them to be more creative. That's the case with VR. "

" 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.' "

" I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of keeping track of where I'm at and letting it all out. "

" The one thing about reality is sometimes it gives you material that is wilder than some of your wildest imagination could come up with. "

" I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio. "

" I'm interested in the kind of anti-establishment ethos that goes with making an independent movie. I like to bring that to studio films - usually to the consternation of the studios. "

" I'm really interested in real people in extraordinary situations. The detail and reality to that. "

" 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. "

" My films have been successful, and therefore, the process has accommodated me. When the studio said 'no,' I did it anyhow. Now they don't say no to me. "

" People don't talk about how hard it is to make a movie. Nobody does. Ever. "

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

" '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. "

" I'm not really in a rush to grow up. "

" What happened on 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith,' I was given a big budget and given too many choices, and I made a lot of mistakes and missteps early on until I squandered all that extra money. But then, once my back was up against the wall, I made what I consider a really good movie. "

" 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. "

" My family went to the Hamptons, so I understand what happens when a slice of perfect utopia gets overdeveloped, when one way of living is replaced by another. "

" 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. "

" We love movies like 'Edge of Tomorrow.' It's why we go to the movies, and it's why we make movies. "

" 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. "

" VR is so immersive, and when it works, it draws you into the story in a way that is truly unique and powerful. "

" 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.' "

" Making 'American Made' really was an adventure. "

" I went to USC film school, briefly, which is a very traditional film school. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Even more than 'Swingers,' 'Go', for me, defines my career. "