Doug Liman Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• 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.

  Doug Liman

  Character, Stories, Might

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Doug Liman

  Character, Successful, Years

  Source: collider.com

• I pride myself on doing character-driven movies and, when my movies have worked, it's been because of the right casting and the right character, and it just clicks.

  Doug Liman

  Character, Pride, Casting

  Source: collider.com

• I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

  Doug Liman

  Falling In Love, Character, Tv Shows

  Source: collider.com

• For big Hollywood movies, I'm on the more character-driven side of the equation. So, TV is a natural place for me to be because you've got no choice, but to be character-driven.

  Doug Liman

  Character, Choices, Sides

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Doug Liman

  Smart, Character, Dark

  "Doug Liman: How to Make an Original Hollywood Blockbuster". Interview with Garin Pirnia, www.esquire.com. June 6, 2014.

• My own personal process with movies is to develop the characters with the actors and, when I've done that properly, you can't imagine anyone else, but that actor, playing that part.

  Doug Liman

  Character, Actors, Done

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Doug Liman

  Real, Heart, Character

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

  Doug Liman

  Character, Shopping, Actors

  Source: collider.com

• It's hard to get a movie made about characters these days. We're in a climate where, unless it's based on a toy or it's a superhero where somewhere it ends in man - like Spider-Man, Superman or Iron Man - it's hard to get it made.

  Doug Liman

  Character, Men, Iron

  Source: collider.com

• TV is a safe place to develop real characters.

  Doug Liman

  Real, Character, Safe

  Source: collider.com

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