Doug Liman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I understand that it's a huge luxury for people to dwell on the problems in Washington. Things have to be pretty tidy in your own life that you have the time to worry about what's going on in Washington. Most of us spend our time worrying about the things that are directly around us: our love lives, our careers, and our banking accounts.”

“Somehow super power and hero are so synonymous that they get combined into one word, 'superhero,' whereas I'm kind of more interested in separating those two ideas out. You have characters with super powers who may or may not be heroic, because human beings aren't all heroic. I tend to be drawn to antiheros.”

“The more real I got on 'The Bourne Identity,' the more interesting it got. So 'Fair Game' was the chance to go a few more steps in that direction. In fact, I discovered this whole other world that I had ignored in the 'Bourne' franchise, which is the domestic life of a spy, and how you make the two halves of your life coexist.”

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

“I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.”

“I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.”

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

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

“It's no secret that my process is a little bit loose and can be a little bit infuriating to a studio if they don't know what they're signing up for.”

“'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' - every scene is from those characters' point of view. They're in literally every scene, very unusual in a big studio film.”