Doug Liman Quotes

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

I grew up making films and always thought that's what I wanted to do.

I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a career in a really prominent special effects house, so he's still doing it. We just started messing around with a camera.

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films.

I was that kind of kid that was going to the movies every weekend, I couldn't get enough of the movies, and now I get to make them. So I kind of have a one-track mind.

I always knew I wanted to be in films, but I did not know exactly what I wanted to do.

I believe that filmmaking is a brilliant thing to do - be doing - for a living.

I see myself directing, writing, doing my own TV shows and movies.

Before I became an actor, I was a producer and a visual effects supervisor. Our industry wasn't making the kind of films I was interested in.

I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet.

I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.

I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan.

I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And I wanted to be a director really bad. I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the right person for; because if you've never made a film, you're not taught how to make a film, and you feel like you lack skills.

I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.

I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release.

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

I've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion.