Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

I've always had antiheroes in my film.

— Doug Liman

Flying small airplanes is not like being on airlines.

— Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

When you can come across a piece of material that's totally original and fun and completely satisfying, you jump on it.

— Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

When I read the script of 'The Wall,' I saw how much different the war looks from the point of view of…

— 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

It causes havoc on set anytime a director wants to go backward rather than forward.

— Doug Liman

There are actors who just bring an enormous amount of empathy. They just have that"it" that makes you want to follow them…

— 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

I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the…

— Doug Liman

In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you…

— Doug Liman

I really love the movies of Katherine Hepburn, movies like 'The African Queen.' I love 'Midnight Run' and I suppose, to pick…

— Doug Liman

All of my fellow directors, I think, would agree that in whatever medium you are working, the challenges and obstacles push them…

— Doug Liman

There would be no Marvel without 'Swingers'; there would be no Jon Favreau directing 'Iron Man,' no Robert Downey Jr. playing Iron…

— Doug Liman

The reality is, the movies that were most impactful to me growing up, when I decided I wanted to make movies, I…

— Doug Liman

Ultimately, if you look at the characters in my films, you'll see a lot of similarities going all the way back to…

— 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

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

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

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 love that Barry Seal is working for the CIA, and he's an awful liar. It just goes to how honest this…

— 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

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

— Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

Making 'American Made' really was an adventure.

— Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

Sometimes rules are there to save your life.

— Doug Liman

'Swingers' was always set in another world.

— Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman

TV is a safe place to develop real characters.

— Doug Liman

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

— Doug Liman