Doug Liman Quotes

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Doug Liman

Profession : Director

Birth : July 24, 1965

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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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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'The Wall' doesn't recount a specific soldier's experience in Iraq, but it captures the spirit of many experiences that were shared with me and with Aaron Taylor-Johnson and with John Cena.

Doug Liman

When you make a war movie, the other side has to be the enemy. You're making a war movie from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.

Doug Liman

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

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I don't think I'm all that twisted in my life. I'm not like some tattooed filmmaker who, you know, hangs out on the Lower East Side and is part of some satanic cult or something.

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Making 'American Made' really was an adventure.

Doug Liman

On 'Edge of Tomorrow,' we discovered that movie while we were making it.

Doug Liman

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.

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Being on a commercial airplane is actually one of the safest places you can be on the planet.

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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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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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I've always had antiheroes in my film.

Doug Liman

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.

Doug Liman

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 feel like, Barry Seal, he's pure of heart.

Doug Liman

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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