"I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don't go down dark alleys, but if you're making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation."

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Source : "Doug Liman: How to Make an Original Hollywood Blockbuster". Interview with Garin Pirnia, www.esquire.com. June 6, 2014.

Doug Liman

#Smart Quotes #Character Quotes #Dark Quotes

“I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.”
“Jet-skiing is my favorite water sport.”
“We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.”
“You never know what you're going to share. I can play, I know what is written - the marks, the things the composer tells me to do - and I do it, but it will still sound different each day.”
“Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.”
“"Herbal medicine's been around for thousands of years!" Indeed it has, and then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became 'medicine'. And the rest of it is just a nice bowl of soup and some potpourri.”

Source : "Dara O'Briain Talks Funny: Live in London". Documentary, Comedy, 2008.
“If you want to call me a bigot, fine.”
“One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is.”

Source : Source: wwd.com

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