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" The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it. "
Doug Liman
Gone
Love
Good
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" 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. "
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" I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did 'Go,' so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane. "
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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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" 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. "
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More
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Happen
" I do take things away from reading reviews. I think they keep you honest. "
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You
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Reading
" My films are very rooted in specific people's point of view. Some film-makers give a more global point of view, like God looking down at the characters. "
Doug Liman
Down
Looking
View
" 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. "
Doug Liman
Doing
Dumb
Way
" Being on a commercial airplane is actually one of the safest places you can be on the planet. "
Doug Liman
Being
You
Places
" I have a rebellious nature, and being told no is almost the surest way to get me to do something. "
Doug Liman
Get
Almost
Way
" 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. "
Doug Liman
Me
Successful
Say
" 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. "
Doug Liman
Work
Think
Movies
" I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio. "
Doug Liman
More
History
I Am
" I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies. "
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Got
Thought
Me
" I feel like, Barry Seal, he's pure of heart. "
Doug Liman
He
Heart
I Feel Like
" 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. "
Doug Liman
Yes
Independent
Movies
" I was a troublemaker. For a long time, I didn't fit in. "
Doug Liman
Fit
Long
Troublemaker
" 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
Me
" 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. "
Doug Liman
Film
Career
Bond
" Amazon may be the only studio that's run by people who come out of making independent movies, real hands-on moviemaking. "
Doug Liman
People
Run
Real
" I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span. "
Doug Liman
Director
Am
Hollywood
" 'The Wall' is a reaction to 'Edge of Tomorrow,' where I was like, 'I don't need time travel and aliens to take a hero and pin them down in an impossible situation. I can do it in a much simpler way.' And that was 'The Wall.' "
Doug Liman
Tomorrow
Hero
Impossible
" I didn't grow up like Quentin Tarantino, watching esoteric art films at the video store. I'd go to the multiplex and see big, mainstream movies, and I'd go, 'I want to make one of those one day.' "
Doug Liman
Movies
Want
Art
" 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. "
Doug Liman
Good
Mistakes
My Life
" The one thing about reality is sometimes it gives you material that is wilder than some of your wildest imagination could come up with. "
Doug Liman
Reality
Imagination
Sometimes
" 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.' "
Doug Liman
School
You
Action
" To be honest, when I started watching VR content, I was mostly disappointed and thought people could do better - not that different from when I set out to make 'Swingers' and thought, 'There's a better way to make an independent film.' Which is why 'Swingers' ended up being so much less expensive than anything like it. "
Doug Liman
Thought
People
Content
" For me, the scale of the budget is part of the creative process. 'Swingers' is the movie it is because we made it for exactly the right budget. Had it been made for a higher number, it would not have been as imaginative as we had to make it, given the budget constraints we had. "
Doug Liman
Process
Budget
Creative
" I've often found, as I did with 'Bourne,' where I was inspired by the events of Iran-Contra when I designed the CIA for the 'Bourne' franchise, that the reality of how things work is usually more compelling than the superficial, made-up version that Hollywood sometimes does. "
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Sometimes
Hollywood
Reality
" I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be. "
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Going
Go
Movie
" 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. "
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Power
Hero
Movies