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I'm really drawn to adventure, and characters being plucked from normal life and sent on extraordinary adventures.

~Doug Liman

Topics: Adventure Adventures Being Characters Drawn Extraordinary Life Normal Normal Life Really Sent

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Ultimately, if you look at the characters in my films, you'll see a lot of similarities going all the way back to 'Swingers' with Vince Vaughn's character.

~Doug Liman

Topics: Back Character Characters Films Going Look Lot See Similarities Ultimately Way You

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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.

~Doug Liman

Topics: Amazing British Characters Cool Films France Full Growing Growing Up Imagination Inspired Just Like Loved Many Me Monty Places Really Side Spielberg Then Thought Took Up Waking Were

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My characters in my movies are all flawed. You'll probably never see Tom Hanks in a Doug Liman film. He plays, you know, very earnest and unflawed.

~Doug Liman

Topics: Characters Earnest Film Flawed He Know Movies Never Plays See Tom Tom Hanks Very You

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I love the challenge of playing characters forced on life-changing emotional journeys. To work on a project with Billy Crudup and Sam Rockwell is just a dream come true.

~Douglas Booth

Topics: Billy Challenge Characters Come Dream Emotional Forced Journeys Just Life-Changing Love Playing Project Sam True Work I Love

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Dickens writes such brilliant characters and stories, and his themes and social commentary are still so relevant. I think that's why he's still so loved today.

~Douglas Booth

Topics: Brilliant Characters Commentary Dickens He His Loved Relevant Social Still Stories Themes Think Today Why Writes I Think

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Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures.

~Douglas Booth

Topics: Beautiful Caricatures Characters Juliet Lot Other Romeo Romeo And Juliet Stunning Surrounding Them Were

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Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Act Become Characters Connect Creates Creative Creative Act Dots Invisible Pattern Places Plot Reader Recognition Series Setting Storyteller Storytelling Through Truths Ultimately Visible Where Writer

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Star Trek characters never go shopping.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Characters Go Never Shopping Star Star Trek Trek

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If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Characters Family Fiction Like Love Them To Love Write You Your

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