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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.

Doug Liman

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Doug Liman
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: July 24
Cinematographer
Executive Producer
Film Director
Film Producer
New York City
New York
Douglas Eric Liman
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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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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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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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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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TV is a safe place to develop real characters.
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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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The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.
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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.
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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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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 almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors.
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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'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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In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you are lacking in story and character, you might still pull it off.
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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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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 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.
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