Doug Liman Quotes

A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases.

I think real life is weirder than fiction.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.

Nothing is to wonderful to be true.

The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.

This is the most unheard of thing that I have ever heard of

Every day, I discover something utterly unbelievable when I play.

There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.

Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.

Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.

Unbelievable, yet, what else could it be?