Doug Liman

“I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that.”

“So many of Spielberg's films inspired my imagination growing up. And then there are British films like 'The Full Monty' and 'Waking Ned Devine' that took me to places I really loved, with characters I just thought were amazing. But the films of Luc Besson showed me France - a really cool side of France.”

“I've really pushed the limits of what you can get away with at big studios, and I've been extremely well-supported.”

“When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James Bond pay a phone bill?' It sounds trite, but it became the foundation of that franchise.”

“Normally, the action is just a gratuitous thing. In the case of Bourne, he was going to learn about himself in the action scenes.”

“I'm interested in the kind of anti-establishment ethos that goes with making an independent movie. I like to bring that to studio films - usually to the consternation of the studios.”

“The audience has a level of control, when you watch 'Invisible,' that nothing in 2D can give you. The overall climax of the series will work no matter how you get there, and the climax of each episode will work no matter how you get there, but no two viewings of an episode will ever be the same.”

“I thought I was done making CIA movies after 'The Bourne Identity.' I really had used my father's work in Iran-Contra on 'The Bourne Identity.' You get one experience like that in your life where you have personal exposure to something, and you put it in a movie. That's it.”

“Making 'American Made' really was an adventure.”

“There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it.”

“Trust me: you make a movie about time travel, and you know for a fact humans will never travel through time. The paradoxes that come up just from trying to tell a story with time travel really illuminates the fact that it's impossible. It will never happen. We can barely get through a movie that involves time travel.”

“We love movies like 'Edge of Tomorrow.' It's why we go to the movies, and it's why we make movies.”

“When I was making 'Bourne Identity,' I wasn't making a dumb action movie like they were expecting it to be.”

“I have a rebellious nature, and being told no is almost the surest way to get me to do something.”

“Being on a commercial airplane is actually one of the safest places you can be on the planet.”

“I've always had antiheroes in my film.”

“My family went to the Hamptons, so I understand what happens when a slice of perfect utopia gets overdeveloped, when one way of living is replaced by another.”

“A part of me is a liberal New Yorker involved in politics and certain attitudes about movies. I kind of lost my indie credibility over 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith.' I know I haven't lost it. I just have to go make an independent movie. I just have to do it. Just for me.”

“The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it.”

“I'm really interested in real people in extraordinary situations. The detail and reality to that.”