You gotta understand, ‘Swingers’ was a resume film for me. I never thought anybody would see the movie who I wasn’t in the room with showing it to them. Doug Liman Read Quote
I like making movies that have some of the qualities of first-person shooter games. That was very important to me for the ‘Bourne’ franchise. Doug Liman Read Quote
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. Doug Liman Read Quote
Trust me: you make a movie about time travel, and you know for a fact humans will never travel through time. The paradoxes that come up just from trying to tell a story with time travel really illuminates the fact that it’s impossible. It will never happen. We can barely get through a movie that involves time travel. Doug Liman Read Quote
I love that Barry Seal is working for the CIA, and he’s an awful liar. It just goes to how honest this character is at the end of the day, even as he rips off the country and the world to the tune of becoming one of the wealthiest men in America. There’s an innate honesty, a purity to him. Doug Liman Read Quote
I got in trouble in film school at USC because one of my Super-8 movies there, in the first semester, involved a snowmobile chase scene. I made an action scene, and they were like, ‘That wasn’t what you were supposed to be doing.’ Doug Liman Read Quote
I started my career wanting to make a ‘James Bond’ movie, and I couldn’t get hired! I made ‘The Bourne Identity,’ and ultimately the impact of that film was that it changed the ‘James Bond’ franchise. Doug Liman Read Quote
What happened on ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith,’ I was given a big budget and given too many choices, and I made a lot of mistakes and missteps early on until I squandered all that extra money. But then, once my back was up against the wall, I made what I consider a really good movie. Doug Liman Read Quote
