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When you can come across a piece of material that's totally original and fun and completely satisfying, you jump on it.
Doug Liman
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Doug Liman
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: July 24
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Douglas Eric Liman
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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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Sometimes rules are there to save your life.
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TV is a safe place to develop real characters.
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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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For big Hollywood movies, I'm on the more character-driven side of the equation. So, TV is a natural place for me to be because you've got no choice, but to be character-driven.
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TV has no choice, but to rely on character, and everybody knows that. I love working in it. It's such a big canvas where, if you're successful, you go on for years.
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In the real world, if you're in a car chase, you're going to hit a million things and your car is going to end up a total wreck by the end.
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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., and they're surrounded by other people who make huge action movies. I'm surrounded by people making documentaries!
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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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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.
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I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.
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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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