I’ve really pushed the limits of what you can get away with at big studios, and I’ve been extremely well-supported. Doug Liman Read Quote
Normally, the action is just a gratuitous thing. In the case of Bourne, he was going to learn about himself in the action scenes. Doug Liman Read Quote
There’s a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it. Doug Liman Read Quote
It causes havoc on set anytime a director wants to go backward rather than forward. Doug Liman Read Quote
My films have been successful, and therefore, the process has accommodated me. When the studio said ‘no,’ I did it anyhow. Now they don’t say no to me. Doug Liman Read Quote
My family went to the Hamptons, so I understand what happens when a slice of perfect utopia gets overdeveloped, when one way of living is replaced by another. Doug Liman Read Quote
My characters in my movies are all flawed. You’ll probably never see Tom Hanks in a Doug Liman film. He plays, you know, very earnest and unflawed. Doug Liman Read Quote
At the end of the day, the less money you have, the easier it is to make a movie. Doug Liman Read Quote
The way I see it, the expensive people who get hired when you have money are the fancy people who tell you what you can’t do. Doug Liman Read Quote
