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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.
Doug Liman
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Doug Liman
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: July 24
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Executive Producer
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New York City
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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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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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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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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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The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.
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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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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.
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From a production point of view, I still have one foot firmly planted in the independent film world, and much of the shooting on 'Jumper' was done 'Swingers'-style because that was the only way we could afford to do it.
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To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.
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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 almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors.
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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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There are actors who just bring an enormous amount of empathy. They just have thatit that makes you want to follow them and root for them.
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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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When you can come across a piece of material that's totally original and fun and completely satisfying, you jump on it.
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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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TV is a safe place to develop real characters.
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Sometimes rules are there to save your life.
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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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