Doug Liman Inspirational Quotes (31)

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

The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it.

Sometimes rules are there to save your life.

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

At the end of the day, it's still a show about guys who ride extremely fast motorcycles for a living.

I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don't go down dark alleys, but if you're making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation.

If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause they work.