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Given the kind of filmmaker I am, the kind of experiences I've been trying to give audiences, I was drawn to the potential of VR before I even tried watching anything in VR.

~Doug Liman

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To be honest, when I started watching VR content, I was mostly disappointed and thought people could do better - not that different from when I set out to make 'Swingers' and thought, 'There's a better way to make an independent film.' Which is why 'Swingers' ended up being so much less expensive than anything like it.

~Doug Liman

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You gotta understand, 'Swingers' was a resume film for me. I never thought anybody would see the movie who I wasn't in the room with showing it to them.

~Doug Liman

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'Swingers' was always set in another world.

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There would be no Marvel without 'Swingers'; there would be no Jon Favreau directing 'Iron Man,' no Robert Downey Jr. playing Iron Man; no 'Avengers.'

~Doug Liman

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When my father would come home from his work at the Senate and talk about the things he could talk about - because a lot of his work was top secret - he would always tell me these stories and laugh. As deadly serious as his work was, he would laugh at the absurdity of it all.

~Doug Liman

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I'm not really in a rush to grow up.

~Doug Liman

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I was a troublemaker. For a long time, I didn't fit in.

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I don't really make movies with an intention other than asking myself, 'Do I love the character, and do I love the story?'

~Doug Liman

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Sometimes there are films like 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' which turned out better than it deserved to be, but in the case of 'Edge of Tomorrow,' there was just such enthusiasm from fans.

~Doug Liman

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: July 24th, 1965

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