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TV is a safe place to develop real characters.
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
New York
Douglas Eric Liman
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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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The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.
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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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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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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 almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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