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Doug Liman Biography

Douglas Eric Liman (born July 24, 1965) is an American film director and producer best known for Swingers (1996), Go (1999), The Bourne Identity (2002), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Jumper (2008), Fair Game (2010), and Edge of Tomorrow (2014).

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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.

Dvds, Fall, Make, Material, Opportunity, Ways

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?"

Pieces, Thought, Want, Writing

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.

Character, Choice, Choices, Equation, Hollywood, Movies

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

Movie, Saying, Sort

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.

Action, Character, Cinematic, Dark, Situation, Smart

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.

Buy, Character, Might, Stories, Story

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

Come, Completely, Fun, Materials, Pieces, Satisfying

It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.

Easier, Movie, People, Turns, Tvs, Want

I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.

Action, Dumb, Impress, People, Robert

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.

Give, Giving, Matter, Script, Scripts, Start

I live in New York City, and I'm making huge action movies. The people that make huge action movies live in L. A. , and they're surrounded by other people who make huge action movies. I'm surrounded by people making documentaries!

Action, Cities, Make, New York, People, York

TV is a safe place to develop real characters.

Character, Characters, Develop, Real, Safe

The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it.

Air, Aspect, Gone, Tvs

What I really found was that the one similarity between Covert Affairs and Fair Game is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.

Admiration, Deep Love, Games, Home, Similarity, Spy

Casting is everything. I put a huge amount of work into casting, and consistently across my career, I am most proud of my bold choices I made in casting.

Career, Careers, Choices, Proud, Work

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.

Fight, Fighting, Hurt, Risk, Stunt, Two

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

Actors, Character, Characters, Create, Process, Shopping

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

Husband, Interesting, Knows, Married, Wife

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.

Causes, Doe, Everybody, Reason, Way, Work

From a production point of view, I still have one foot firmly planted in the independent film world, and much of the shooting on 'Jumper' was done 'Swingers'-style because that was the only way we could afford to do it.

Done, Feet, Foot, Independent, Planted, Views

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