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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.

From Doug Liman

The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.

From Doug Liman

I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that.

From Doug Liman

When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I respect - basically, a 40-bloc radius from my apartment in Manhattan.

From Doug Liman

My dad couldn't connect to my wanting to be a filmmaker. He was very connected in entertainment, and through him I met Steven Spielberg and got rides on his private plane to California. I'd see Spielberg's people reading scripts. I was like, 'That's what I want to be when I grow up.'

From Doug Liman

I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be.

From Doug Liman

To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

From Doug Liman

A part of me is a liberal New Yorker involved in politics and certain attitudes about movies. I kind of lost my indie credibility over 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith.' I know I haven't lost it. I just have to go make an independent movie. I just have to do it. Just for me.

From Doug Liman

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.

From Doug Liman

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

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