Quotes by Doug Liman

I've been really lucky in terms of the people I've gotten to work with.

I'm really interested in real people in extraordinary situations. The detail and reality to that.

In 'The Bourne Identity,' I wanted to give the audience the feeling of being in the car with Jason Bourne, not just watching him drive but be in the car with him, and 'The Wall' is the continuation of that immersive filmmaking style. Where you're trapped behind the wall with Aaron Taylor-Johnson - for better or worse, you're trapped there with him.

When I was making 'Bourne Identity,' I wasn't making a dumb action movie like they were expecting it to be.

I'm interested in the kind of anti-establishment ethos that goes with making an independent movie. I like to bring that to studio films - usually to the consternation of the studios.

With 'Invisible,' I didn't want to create something that requires you to watch it more than once; I don't even expect people to watch it more than once per se. I just wanted you to have the experience and knowing that if you watch it a second time, it would be different because you would see different things.

Trust me: you make a movie about time travel, and you know for a fact humans will never travel through time. The paradoxes that come up just from trying to tell a story with time travel really illuminates the fact that it's impossible. It will never happen. We can barely get through a movie that involves time travel.

I'm really anxious not to repeat what I've done before, to keep pushing and learning.

People don't talk about how hard it is to make a movie. Nobody does. Ever.

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.