Latest Doug Liman Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Doug Liman

  Hurt, Fighting, Two

  Source: collider.com

• You can find truly original pieces of writing, but they're original because you go, "Who would have even have thought of that?," or, "Why would anyone ever want to go see that?"

  Doug Liman

  Writing, Pieces, Want

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Doug Liman

  Actors, Easier, Persons

  Source: collider.com

• In the real world, if you're in a car chase, you're going to hit a million things and your car is going to end up a total wreck by the end.

  Doug Liman

  Real, Car, World

  Source: collider.com

• At the end of the day, I like the spy genre, as opposed to the action movie genre, because spies are smart. The successful spies are the smarter spies.

  Doug Liman

  Smart, Successful, The End Of The Day

  Source: collider.com

• There are actors who just bring an enormous amount of empathy. They just have that"it" that makes you want to follow them and root for them.

  Doug Liman

  Roots, Empathy, Actors

  Source: collider.com

• Once I'm in the editing room, forget about what I intended to shoot. I take a cold, hard look at what I really did shoot, and then I edit that because, if you try to edit what you intended and you missed somewhere, that will show up.

  Doug Liman

  Editing, Trying, Looks

  Source: collider.com

• Obviously, anyone who has seen Mr. and Mrs. Smith knows that husband and wife married spies is something that I find particularly interesting.

  Doug Liman

  Husband, Interesting, Wife

  Source: collider.com

• 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

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

  Doug Liman

  Character, Shopping, Actors

  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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Sometimes rules are there to save your life.

  Doug Liman

  Sometimes

  "Director Doug Liman Talks MTV’s I JUST WANT MY PANTS BACK, ALL YOU NEED IS KILL and EVEREST". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 1, 2012.

• It's very hard for a studio to take a chance on a piece of original material. They used to have the fall-back of DVD sales. They had ways in which they could safely make an investment in a piece of original material, and those opportunities aren't necessarily there anymore.

  Doug Liman

  Fall, Opportunity, Dvds

  "Director Doug Liman Talks MTV’s I JUST WANT MY PANTS BACK, ALL YOU NEED IS KILL and EVEREST". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 1, 2012.

• If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause they work.

  Doug Liman

  Doe, Way, Causes

  "Director Doug Liman Talks MTV’s I JUST WANT MY PANTS BACK, ALL YOU NEED IS KILL and EVEREST". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 1, 2012.

• When you can come across a piece of material that's totally original and fun and completely satisfying, you jump on it.

  Doug Liman

  Fun, Pieces, Materials

  "Director Doug Liman Talks ALL YOU NEED IS KILL with Tom Cruise and EVEREST; Says He Hopes KILL Is His Next Film". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 22, 2012.

• Nothing I've done is like anything else I've done before.

  Doug Liman

  Done

  "Director Doug Liman Talks MTV’s I JUST WANT MY PANTS BACK, ALL YOU NEED IS KILL and EVEREST". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 1, 2012.

• 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.

  Doug Liman

  Giving, Matter, Scripts

  "Director Doug Liman Talks ALL YOU NEED IS KILL with Tom Cruise and EVEREST; Says He Hopes KILL Is His Next Film". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 22, 2012.