Doug Liman
Doug Liman
Douglas Eric "Doug" Limanis an American film director and producer best known for Swingers, The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Jumper, Fair Game, and Edge of Tomorrow...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth24 July 1965
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
heart people stories
The beating heart of your story that's not what shows up in a trailer. The other stuff is what shows up in a trailer, because that's what gets people in to the seats, and that's how studios make their money.
character stories might
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.
efficiency pace stories telling type
I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did 'Go,' so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane.
writing want pieces
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?"
done
Nothing I've done is like anything else I've done before.
character actors done
My own personal process with movies is to develop the characters with the actors and, when I've done that properly, you can't imagine anyone else, but that actor, playing that part.
character shopping actors
It's almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors.
editing trying rooms
Once I'm in the editing room, forget about what I intended to shoot. I take a cold, hard look at what I really did shoot, and then I edit that because, if you try to edit what you intended and you missed somewhere, that will show up.
husband interesting wife
Obviously, anyone who has seen Mr. and Mrs. Smith knows that husband and wife married spies is something that I find particularly interesting.
real car world
In the real world, if you're in a car chase, you're going to hit a million things and your car is going to end up a total wreck by the end.
smart successful spy
At the end of the day, I like the spy genre, as opposed to the action movie genre, because spies are smart. The successful spies are the smarter spies.
actors easier persons
It's better to find a stunt person who can act. It's easier to do that than to find an actor who can do a stunt.
hurt fighting two
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.
roots empathy want
There are actors who just bring an enormous amount of empathy. They just have that"it" that makes you want to follow them and root for them.