169 Quotes by Doug Liman

Amazon may be the only studio that's run by people who come out of making independent movies, real hands-on moviemaking.

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.'

I've always been interested in giving the audience a first-person experience in my movies.

I've really pushed the limits of what you can get away with at big studios, and I've been extremely well-supported.

Normally, the action is just a gratuitous thing. In the case of Bourne, he was going to learn about himself in the action scenes.

There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it.

It causes havoc on set anytime a director wants to go backward rather than forward.

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.

It's kind of hard to work with Tom Cruise and not be aware that you're working with one of the biggest movie stars in the world.