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" When you have films like 'Bourne' that succeed, not only does it beget sequels, but it begets people taking chances. "
Doug Liman
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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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" 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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" VR is so immersive, and when it works, it draws you into the story in a way that is truly unique and powerful. "
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" With VR, you are directing in a 360-degree environment. The biggest challenge is that the viewer can look anywhere. They might look at the the weakest moments, the very things you edit for TV. You don't control where they look. "
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" 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. "
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Respect
Friends
Play
" 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.' "
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Movies
Want
Art
" 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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Why
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Love
" 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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I Am
Career
Choices
" 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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Know
Me
Movies
" Almost anything can be justified as a style of filmmaking if it works. "
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Style
Almost
Anything
" 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. "
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Love
Fair
Life
" 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. "
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Thought
People
Content
" 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. "
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Good
Mistakes
My Life
" 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. "
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Look
You
Time
" On 'Edge of Tomorrow,' we discovered that movie while we were making it. "
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Movie
Edge
Making
" 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
" The beating heart of your story... that's not what shows up in a trailer. The other stuff is what shows up in a trailer, because that's what gets people in to the seats, and that's how studios make their money. "
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People
Money
Heart
" 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. "
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I Am
Trying
Watching
" The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make. "
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Aspired
Movie
End
" 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. "
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Way
Understand
Perfect
" 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. "
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World
Kind
Work
" At the end of the day, the less money you have, the easier it is to make a movie. "
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End Of The Day
Money
End
" 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. "
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" 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! "
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Live
City
Action
" 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 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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Movies
Story
Myself
" I've really pushed the limits of what you can get away with at big studios, and I've been extremely well-supported. "
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You
Away
Been
" The 'Bourne' franchise means the world to me. I love that Universal wants to put one out every two years. Because it is a safe investment, I benefit from that on many levels. "
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Love
Me
World
" '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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View
Big
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" 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. "
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Tomorrow
Action
Edge