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It's almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors.

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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 make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.
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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.
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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 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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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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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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TV is a safe place to develop real characters.
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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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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 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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