Film Quotes by Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

I've always had antiheroes in my film.

— Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.

— Doug Liman

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

— 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

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

— Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' - every scene is from those characters' point of view. They're in literally every scene, very unusual in…

— Doug Liman

I never want to repeat myself. I can't imagine anything else as upsetting as realizing I'm redoing something I did before. For…

— Doug Liman

Sometimes there are films like 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' which turned out better than it deserved to be, but in the case…

— Doug Liman

I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I made 'The Bourne Identity,' and…

— Doug Liman

What happened on 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith,' I was given a big budget and given too many choices, and I made a…

— Doug Liman

I don't necessarily think that having more money helps make you make a better film. Sometimes having less money is better. You're…

— Doug Liman

A movie like 'Edge of Tomorrow' is so huge and complex - the spectacle and action is all-consuming - and that on…

— Doug Liman

It's very hard for a studio to take a chance on a piece of original material. They used to have the fall-back…

— Doug Liman

From a production point of view, I still have one foot firmly planted in the independent film world, and much of the…

— Doug Liman

With 'Invisible,' I didn't want to create something that requires you to watch it more than once; I don't even expect people…

— 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

To be honest, when I started watching VR content, I was mostly disappointed and thought people could do better - not that…

— Doug Liman

We love movies like 'Edge of Tomorrow.' It's why we go to the movies, and it's why we make movies.

— Doug Liman

I've always been interested in giving the audience a first-person experience in my movies.

— Doug Liman

My characters in my movies are all flawed. You'll probably never see Tom Hanks in a Doug Liman film. He plays, you…

— 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…

— Doug Liman

I don't really make movies with an intention other than asking myself, 'Do I love the character, and do I love the…

— Doug Liman

I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.

— 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 got in trouble in film school at USC because one of my Super-8 movies there, in the first semester, involved a…

— Doug Liman

The beating heart of your story... that's not what shows up in a trailer. The other stuff is what shows up in…

— Doug Liman

I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven…

— Doug Liman

My films are very rooted in specific people's point of view. Some film-makers give a more global point of view, like God…

— Doug Liman

I'm interested in the kind of anti-establishment ethos that goes with making an independent movie. I like to bring that to studio…

— Doug Liman

I have to have a passionate connection to my films, which I do with 'Justice League Dark.' I have a way into…

— Doug Liman

Given the kind of filmmaker I am, the kind of experiences I've been trying to give audiences, I was drawn to the…

— Doug Liman

I always liked photography in film - I studied photography growing up. I like the medium of film; I like physically holding…

— Doug Liman

For me, the scale of the budget is part of the creative process. 'Swingers' is the movie it is because we made…

— Doug Liman