Doug Liman Quotes

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.

As far as I'm concerned, I make movies.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

I definitely want to study film. I'd like to have my own studio one day and just make a lot of movies.

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

I'm going to end up making twenty films if people let me.

I like telling stories, I like movies, and I want to work on films. I think I would feel safer behind the camera.

One day, I want to make a PG film.

You can't make a movie about making movies - it's boring.

I want to make my own movie.

The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

I love making movies.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.

I've not had any interest in running a movie studio, but I want to make one feature film.

This is the best film school there is, just to make movies and be there on set.

I did a lot of short films before doing feature films.

I like to work in cinema everywhere.

I like to produce my own movies.

Our film society back home is so different from here. Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language. It's just figuring things out and understanding the codes and how the system of Hollywood compares to that of Norway. We don't even have agents. There's no studio system, no managers.