“I didn't grow up like Quentin Tarantino, watching esoteric art films a...” — Doug Liman Quote

“I didn't grow up like Quentin Tarantino, watching esoteric art films at the video store. I'd go to the multiplex and see big, mainstream movies, and I'd go, 'I want to make one of those one day.'”

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

“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.”

“We're not trying to be esoteric. There is that about what we do, but we like to be there at the table with everybody else, commercially speaking.”

“I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can't explain it in five minutes, then it's too obtuse or esoteric.”

“From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal.”