Doug Liman

I've always had antiheroes in my film.

— Doug Liman

Nothing I've done is like anything else I've done before.

— Doug Liman

I was a troublemaker. For a long time, I didn't fit in.

— Doug Liman

'North by Northwest' was a big influence for 'The Bourne Identity.'

— Doug Liman

Even more than 'Swingers,' 'Go', for me, defines my career.

— Doug Liman

I like to keep my options open. I'm known for changing my mind.

— Doug Liman

Flying small airplanes is not like being on airlines.

— Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

I think that I learned a studio system prefers a sort of professionalism from the director.

— Doug Liman

Amazon may be the only studio that's run by people who come out of making independent movies, real hands-on moviemaking.

— Doug Liman

People don't talk about how hard it is to make a movie. Nobody does. Ever.

— Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

It's almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors.

— Doug Liman

It's better to find a stunt person who can act. It's easier to do that than to find an actor who can…

— Doug Liman

There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer…

— Doug Liman

When you have films like 'Bourne' that succeed, not only does it beget sequels, but it begets people taking chances.

— Doug Liman

When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I…

— Doug Liman

I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did 'Go,' so a part of the fast pace and…

— Doug Liman

I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of…

— Doug Liman

My films have been successful, and therefore, the process has accommodated me. When the studio said 'no,' I did it anyhow. Now…

— Doug Liman

I always wanted to make a 'James Bond' film, and they only seemed to hire British directors, and I'd made 'Swingers' -…

— Doug Liman

When my father would come home from his work at the Senate and talk about the things he could talk about -…

— Doug Liman

'The Wall' doesn't recount a specific soldier's experience in Iraq, but it captures the spirit of many experiences that were shared with…

— Doug Liman

My dad couldn't connect to my wanting to be a filmmaker. He was very connected in entertainment, and through him I met…

— 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…

— Doug Liman

I chose 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' specifically 'cause I had just made 'The Bourne Identity' and made a film that glamorized being…

— Doug Liman

Trust me: you make a movie about time travel, and you know for a fact humans will never travel through time. The…

— Doug Liman

Finding original source material is not easy, but when something special like 'Edge of Tomorrow' comes along, everybody recognized it. I wasn't…

— Doug Liman

When I set out to make 'Bourne Identity,' my main goal for the franchise was to create something where it feels like…

— Doug Liman

So many of Spielberg's films inspired my imagination growing up. And then there are British films like 'The Full Monty' and 'Waking…

— Doug Liman

Somehow super power and hero are so synonymous that they get combined into one word, 'superhero,' whereas I'm kind of more interested…

— Doug Liman

I understand that it's a huge luxury for people to dwell on the problems in Washington. Things have to be pretty tidy…

— Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

TV is a safe place to develop real characters.

— Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

I'm not really in a rush to grow up.

— Doug Liman

I've been really lucky in terms of the people I've gotten to work with.

— Doug Liman

Sometimes rules are there to save your life.

— Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

Making 'American Made' really was an adventure.

— Doug Liman