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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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" 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.' "

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Cruise

Going

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

Doug Liman

History

I Am

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm really attracted to anti-heroes, and I'm a little bit of a troublemaker myself, and a little bit of a rule-breaker, and I like spies. "

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

Doug Liman

Going

Movie

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic. "

" Almost anything can be justified as a style of filmmaking if it works. "

" I had one scene in 'Invisible' with 12 actors delivering dialog at the same time. "

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

Doug Liman

School

Dumb

" My dad couldn't connect to my wanting to be a filmmaker. He was very connected in entertainment, and through him I met Steven Spielberg and got rides on his private plane to California. I'd see Spielberg's people reading scripts. I was like, 'That's what I want to be when I grow up.' "

" I do take things away from reading reviews. I think they keep you honest. "

" I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about 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

" Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down. "

Doug Liman

Moments

Progress

" If you go to a restaurant with Tom Cruise, it's like walking in with Santa Claus. Everybody is in a better mood because he's there. "

" 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. "

Doug Liman

Growing Up

Brother

" 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. "

" I live in New York City, and I'm making huge action movies. The people that make huge action movies live in L.A., and they're surrounded by other people who make huge action movies. I'm surrounded by people making documentaries! "

" I'm really anxious not to repeat what I've done before, to keep pushing and learning. "

" 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. "

Doug Liman

Know

Movies

" 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. "

" At the end of the day, the less money you have, the easier it is to make a movie. "

" 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

Successful

Say

" 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. "