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" There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it. "
Doug Liman
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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Doing
Efficiency
Fast
" I went to USC film school, briefly, which is a very traditional film school. "
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Film
School
Which
" 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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Games
Important
Like
" I'm really interested in real people in extraordinary situations. The detail and reality to that. "
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Detail
Real
Reality
" 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.' "
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Going
Bond
Me
" The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make. "
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" A part of me is a liberal New Yorker involved in politics and certain attitudes about movies. I kind of lost my indie credibility over 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith.' I know I haven't lost it. I just have to go make an independent movie. I just have to do it. Just for me. "
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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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" More of 'The Bourne Identity's script was taken from the events of the Iran Contra, which my father investigated for the Senate, than what was taken from Robert Ludlum's novel. "
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" When I was making 'Bourne Identity,' I wasn't making a dumb action movie like they were expecting it to be. "
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" Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down. "
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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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" You gotta understand, 'Swingers' was a resume film for me. I never thought anybody would see the movie who I wasn't in the room with showing it to them. "
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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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" I don't necessarily think that having more money helps make you make a better film. Sometimes having less money is better. You're forced into being more original; you're forced into hearing something versus seeing it. "
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" 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. "
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" Antiheroes who are sort of honest to themselves are the ones you root for. Like, Barry Seal isn't trying to be anything other than he is. He isn't fooling anybody per se. "
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You
" 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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