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Doug Liman
Doug Liman
American Director
Born: Jul 24, 1965
Film Made Me People Think You
Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
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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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
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So many of Spielberg's films inspired my imagination growing up. And then there are British films like 'The Full Monty' and 'Waking Ned Devine' that took me to places I really loved, with characters I just thought were amazing. But the films of Luc Besson showed me France - a really cool side of France. Doug Liman
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'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
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Normally, the action is just a gratuitous thing. In the case of Bourne, he was going to learn about himself in the action scenes. Doug Liman
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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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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. Doug Liman
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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. Doug Liman
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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
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The way I see it, the expensive people who get hired when you have money are the fancy people who tell you what you can't do. Doug Liman
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I think that I learned a studio system prefers a sort of professionalism from the director. Doug Liman
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I'm really anxious not to repeat what I've done before, to keep pushing and learning. Doug Liman
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Trust me: you make a movie about time travel, and you know for a fact humans will never travel through time. The paradoxes that come up just from trying to tell a story with time travel really illuminates the fact that it's impossible. It will never happen. We can barely get through a movie that involves time travel. Doug Liman
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With 'Invisible,' I didn't want to create something that requires you to watch it more than once; I don't even expect people to watch it more than once per se. I just wanted you to have the experience and knowing that if you watch it a second time, it would be different because you would see different things. Doug Liman
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I'm really interested in real people in extraordinary situations. The detail and reality to that. Doug Liman
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I've been really lucky in terms of the people I've gotten to work with. Doug Liman
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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. Doug Liman
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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
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I'm not really in a rush to grow up. Doug Liman
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Almost anything can be justified as a style of filmmaking if it works. Doug Liman
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I like to keep my options open. I'm known for changing my mind. Doug Liman
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I was a troublemaker. For a long time, I didn't fit in. Doug Liman
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I don't really make movies with an intention other than asking myself, 'Do I love the character, and do I love the story?' Doug Liman
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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.' Doug Liman
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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. Doug Liman
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Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down. Doug Liman
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