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If I'm not in love with the script, there's nothing. It doesn't matter what you give me. It has to start with the script.
Doug Liman
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Doug Liman
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: July 24
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New York City
New York
Douglas Eric Liman
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At the end of the day, it's still a show about guys who ride extremely fast motorcycles for a living.
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It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.
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It's better to find a stunt person who can act. It's easier to do that than to find an actor who can do a stunt.
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Sometimes rules are there to save your life.
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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.
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The beating heart of your story that's not what shows up in a trailer. The other stuff is what shows up in a trailer, because that's what gets people in to the seats, and that's how studios make their money.
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Once I'm in the editing room, forget about what I intended to shoot. I take a cold, hard look at what I really did shoot, and then I edit that because, if you try to edit what you intended and you missed somewhere, that will show up.
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When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I respect, basically a 40-bloc radius from my apartment in Manhattan.
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It's almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors.
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Obviously, anyone who has seen Mr. and Mrs. Smith knows that husband and wife married spies is something that I find particularly interesting.
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The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.
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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.
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It's much easier to do a fight sequence between two people, if one of the two people in the fight is a stunt person, or you're going to risk somebody getting hurt.
Doug Liman
In particular, I'm drawn to the stories that have big, high concepts and real characters at their heart. And I love where those two worlds meet, and 'Edge of Tomorrow' is the perfect canvas to explore that.
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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.
Doug Liman
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.
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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.
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I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of keeping track of where I'm at and letting it all out.
Doug Liman
TV is a safe place to develop real characters.
Doug Liman
At the end of the day, I like the spy genre, as opposed to the action movie genre, because spies are smart. The successful spies are the smarter spies.
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