When you make a war movie, the other side has to be the enemy. You’re making a war movie from the point of view of a soldier fighting it. Doug Liman Read Quote
Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down. Doug Liman Read Quote
I’m really attracted to anti-heroes, and I’m a little bit of a troublemaker myself, and a little bit of a rule-breaker, and I like spies. Doug Liman Read Quote
I thought I was done making CIA movies after ‘The Bourne Identity.’ I really had used my father’s work in Iran-Contra on ‘The Bourne Identity.’ You get one experience like that in your life where you have personal exposure to something, and you put it in a movie. That’s it. Doug Liman Read Quote
I have to have a passionate connection to my films, which I do with ‘Justice League Dark.’ I have a way into the story that’s personal, the way I have a connection to ‘The Wall.’ Doug Liman Read Quote
The Wall’ is a reaction to ‘Edge of Tomorrow,’ where I was like, ‘I don’t need time travel and aliens to take a hero and pin them down in an impossible situation. I can do it in a much simpler way.’ And that was ‘The Wall.’ Doug Liman Read Quote
I didn’t grow up like Quentin Tarantino, watching esoteric art films at the video store. I’d go to the multiplex and see big, mainstream movies, and I’d go, ‘I want to make one of those one day.’ Doug Liman Read Quote
I always wanted to make a ‘James Bond’ film, and they only seemed to hire British directors, and I’d made ‘Swingers’ – they were never going to hire me for a ‘James Bond’ film off ‘Swingers.’ Doug Liman Read Quote