Doug Liman Quotes

I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.

I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.

I would say that my favorite action film is the 'Die Hard's. They're kind of perfect, I think.

I have two dream roles: One would be a biopic of someone I admire and respect and the other one would be some sort of action drama film similar to a 'Bourne Identity.' I just really want to do an intelligent action drama film.

I didn't even know how to judge 'Die Hard 1.' It's not anything I know how to judge. I'd never seen an action movie. I'd never seen a Sly Stallone movie or an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie or a Charles Bronson movie. And that is the truth.

I have a real taste for doing action roles. I starred in a movie called 'Blast,' which was my first action film, and I loved the fighting - I think I've got the build, the attitude and the look for it.

When I was growing up, it was Clint Eastwood, it was Harrison Ford and Steve McQueen - these guys were tough. They were leading men, but they were also tough and physical.

Me and my comedy writer friends talk a lot about how we love 'Die Hard,' but we'll never be able to write 'Die Hard.'

I don't think I've ever been called up for an action film with a male lead - which is a shame. I'd love to take on Bond.

I did not want to do things the way they are usually done in Hindi cinema.

With 'Daud,' basically, I wanted to make a very 'Mad Max' kind of a film: that was my original intention.

An action movie, a sci-fi action movie, would be my favourite thing in the world to do.

We really wanted it to be an action movie. Those are the movies that we love. We're big fans of like Shane Black movies, when we were younger - me and Evan [Goldberg].

I'd like to do an action film like Angelina Jolie's 'Salt.'

I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination.

I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I made 'The Bourne Identity,' and ultimately the impact of that film was that it changed the 'James Bond' franchise.

I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'

That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking around Paris and shooting where we didn't have permits.

My favorite movie is 'Die Hard.' It doesn't have pinatas and mariachis. It's just a good movie.

Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece.

Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.

I think 'Hero' is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.

Everybody wants you to do this thing that you've always been doing forever. That's what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different.

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

I remember I would always joke among my friends about a remake of 'Point Break'. I would say, 'You know what? Whenever there's a remake of 'Point Break', I'm going to do it.'