Doug Liman Quotes

I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.

The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.

We have always appealed to people outside of the mainstream. Constantly, we get people coming up to us and saying, 'I was just the freakiest one in high school. I was the only one who kept playing the B-52's.'

I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality.

Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.

The weird thing about metal fans is we're all so maladjusted in a lot of ways. We're individualistic and opinionated and severe in our personalities - sometimes we really turn each other off. A little bit of a metal fan goes a long way.

Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.

I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that!

Everyone has their thing, and I was the weird, artsy kid.

I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in me, I guess.

I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.

At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.

I've never really been a girly-girl.

I've always been weird, and into weird stuff that has a hard time finding mainstream success.

I've always been weird.

Hipsters. We all know one. They're those fun, little, arrogant people who let the ideal of 'anti-consumerism,' combined with a hatred for all things normal, dictate their every action.

I don't think I've ever really fitted into the industry and the scene. I feel like I've always been on the cusp.

I like being a cult figure.

Whether it's spending more time and money at thrift shops for threads (anti-consumerist threads, mind you), or combing the record store for the most unknown/least coherent band they can find, there's one thing that hipsters constantly want you to know: that they are better than you.

You can't be a punk all your life.

Part of me is nonhuman and eccentric, which is what a hobbit is, and I don't mind being eccentric.