Doug Liman Quotes

The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.

I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.

What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

Rose and I have gone on the most incredible journey over the past two years

It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it.

I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.

What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.

So here I am, sending a two-ounce mouse down into a dungeon with a sewing needle to save a human princess, and I don't know how in the world he's going to do it. I have no idea. That was the first time it occurred to me that writing the story was roughly equivalent to Despereaux's descent into the dungeon. I was tremendously aware of that as I was writing. I thought, "I have to be brave or else I'm not going to be able to tell it." But it's the only way that I can write. If I know what's going to happen, I'm not interested in telling the story.

We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.

A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.

Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books.

But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it when she saw it- and everything would change.

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes.

I’m really starting to like all this spy work,” Vee said. “When my normal life gets boring, all I have to do is sidle up next to you.

If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

Don't ask for security, ask for adventure

There are some of us who are just born with a more adventurous spirit than others. There are lots of people who would rather do the same thing, and she just was never that.

Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.

Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.

I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it.

There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.

If I have the chance to time travel, might as well go all out.