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" 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.' "

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" 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. "

Doug Liman

Tell

You

Way

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

" If you look at my movies, they're pretty densely packed, such that they not only hold up to a second viewing, they're oftentimes better the second time you watch them. So I've always thought about crafting stories that could hold up to multiple viewings, and so VR obviously fits right into that. "

" It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV. "

Doug Liman

People

Out

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

" Sometimes there are films like 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' which turned out better than it deserved to be, but in the case of 'Edge of Tomorrow,' there was just such enthusiasm from fans. "

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

Doug Liman

History

I Am

" 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 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. "

" I don't really make movies with an intention other than asking myself, 'Do I love the character, and do I love the story?' "

" The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make. "

" I subscribe to the school that there are no dumb questions. "

Doug Liman

School

Dumb

" I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be. "

Doug Liman

Going

Movie

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

Doug Liman

Director

Hollywood

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

Doug Liman

Being

Small

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always had antiheroes in my film. "

" 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. "

" It's kind of hard to work with Tom Cruise and not be aware that you're working with one of the biggest movie stars in the world. "

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

" That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking around Paris and shooting where we didn't have permits. "

" VR should be more emotionally involving, but that doesn't happen automatically by just taking a VR camera and sticking it onto what would be a traditionally blocked scene for 2D. "

Doug Liman

Just

Happen

" Given the kind of filmmaker I am, the kind of experiences I've been trying to give audiences, I was drawn to the potential of VR before I even tried watching anything in VR. "

" 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. "