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" I was a troublemaker. For a long time, I didn't fit in. "
Doug Liman
Fit
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Troublemaker
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" I'm really anxious not to repeat what I've done before, to keep pushing and learning. "
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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. "
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" Even more than 'Swingers,' 'Go', for me, defines my career. "
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" Casting is everything. I put a huge amount of work into casting, and consistently across my career, I am most proud of my bold choices I made in casting. "
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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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" At the end of the day, the less money you have, the easier it is to make a movie. "
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End
" I've been really lucky in terms of the people I've gotten to work with. "
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Really
" The reality is, the movies that were most impactful to me growing up, when I decided I wanted to make movies, I was going to see Woody Allen double features with my brother, back when they had double features. "
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Growing Up
Brother
" It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV. "
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People
Out
TV
" 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. "
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Think
You
" 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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Dumb
Way
" To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic. "
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Romantic
Believing
Home
" 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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Look
Back
" I went to USC film school, briefly, which is a very traditional film school. "
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School
Which
" I love that Barry Seal is working for the CIA, and he's an awful liar. It just goes to how honest this character is at the end of the day, even as he rips off the country and the world to the tune of becoming one of the wealthiest men in America. There's an innate honesty, a purity to him. "
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Love
" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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War
" I'll just say that there are certain people who continue to be hired in Hollywood, and that leaves me truly shocked. "
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" 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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Life
Experience
" There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it. "
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Weird
Intellectual
Filmmaking
" I had one scene in 'Invisible' with 12 actors delivering dialog at the same time. "
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Small
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