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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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Doug Liman
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: July 24
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Douglas Eric Liman
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