Quotes from Doug Liman

When my father would come home from his work at the Senate and talk about the things he could talk about - because a lot of his work was top secret - he would always tell me these stories and laugh. As deadly serious as his work was, he would laugh at the absurdity of it all.

Even more than 'Swingers,' 'Go', for me, defines my career.

Somehow super power and hero are so synonymous that they get combined into one word, 'superhero,' whereas I'm kind of more interested in separating those two ideas out. You have characters with super powers who may or may not be heroic, because human beings aren't all heroic. I tend to be drawn to antiheros.

I thought I was done making CIA movies after 'The Bourne Identity.' I really had used my father's work in Iran-Contra on 'The Bourne Identity.' You get one experience like that in your life where you have personal exposure to something, and you put it in a movie. That's it.

Given the kind of filmmaker I am, the kind of experiences I've been trying to give audiences, I was drawn to the potential of VR before I even tried watching anything in VR.

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

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.

I feel like, Barry Seal, he's pure of heart.

Flying small airplanes is not like being on airlines.

The one thing about reality is sometimes it gives you material that is wilder than some of your wildest imagination could come up with.

I like making movies that have some of the qualities of first-person shooter games. That was very important to me for the 'Bourne' franchise.

Sometimes rules are there to save your life.

Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down.

I do take things away from reading reviews. I think they keep you honest.

You gotta understand, 'Swingers' was a resume film for me. I never thought anybody would see the movie who I wasn't in the room with showing it to them.

I love 'Bringing Up Baby.' Anything that Katharine Hepburn's in. I'm committed to the Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn era of filmmaking.

My older brother took me to Woody Allen double features when I was still teething.

The reality is, the movies that were most impactful to me growing up, when I decided I wanted to make movies, I was going to see Woody Allen double features with my brother, back when they had double features.

I have a rebellious nature, and being told no is almost the surest way to get me to do something.

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

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

VR is so immersive, and when it works, it draws you into the story in a way that is truly unique and powerful.

'The Wall' is a reaction to 'Edge of Tomorrow,' where I was like, 'I don't need time travel and aliens to take a hero and pin them down in an impossible situation. I can do it in a much simpler way.' And that was 'The Wall.'

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.