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Doug Liman

(1965) Film Producer United States

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Doug Liman is a film producer from the United States, best known for The wall.

Quick Facts About Doug Liman

Born: July 24, 1965
Nationality: United States
Profession: Film Producer
Notable works: The wall

About Doug Liman

Douglas Eric Liman is an American film director and producer. He is known for directing the films Swingers (1996), Go (1999), The Bourne Identity (2002), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Jumper (2008), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), American Made (2017), and Road House (2024).

Biography source: Wikipedia

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I didn't grow up like Quentin Tarantino, watching esoteric art films at the video store. I'd go to the multiplex and see…

Art

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I live in New York City, and I'm making huge action movies. The people that make huge action movies live in L.A.,…

Action

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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…

Amazing

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

Action

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

Career

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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…

Cinema

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

Better

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

Bond

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

Changing

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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…

Camera

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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,…

Being

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For big Hollywood movies, I'm on the more character-driven side of the equation. So, TV is a natural place for me to…

Bigs

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Antiheroes who are sort of honest to themselves are the ones you root for. Like, Barry Seal isn't trying to be anything…

Anything

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You can find truly original pieces of writing, but they're original because you go, "Who would have even have thought of that?,"…

Creativity

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My own personal process with movies is to develop the characters with the actors and, when I've done that properly, you can't…

Actors

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I'm really anxious not to repeat what I've done before, to keep pushing and learning.

Anxiety

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

Cinema

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I started making Super 8-mm films when I was about six years old and just never stopped. It was always just a…

Career

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I do take things away from reading reviews. I think they keep you honest.

I think

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

Budget

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When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James Bond pay a phone bill?'…

Bond

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

Fit

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

Budget

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I think of myself as making independent films within the studio system. Yes, I've made movies with significantly larger budgets, and I've…

Cinema

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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…

About

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