Doug Liman Quotes

On one level, I would prefer never to hear the words 'James Bond' again, but on another level, it is part of my blood and my life. And it's the only movie in the world that offers a British actor the chance of international recognition.

I've always loved the Bond pictures. I have watched every single one. Movies don't get bigger or better than Bond, so I knew this was my opportunity to do a massive action picture with outrageous stunts.

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

Whenever you do anything with Bond, you've got Cubby Broccoli and Sean Connery looking over your shoulder.

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.

'Skyfall' was marvellous, the best Bond film ever made.

In all my 'Bond' films, everything you see there is fantastically real.

I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.

I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.

I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.

As a kid, you either wanted to play Bond or a Bond villain. Ask any of my friends in entertainment, whether they are actors or writers or producers or directors, and they will tell you that they'd love to play a Bond baddie. I can go anywhere in the world and I am known; it put me on the international map.

'License to Kill' is not one of the great Bond movies.

I grew up on the Roger Moore and Sean Connery Bond movies, so the DNA of my spies is extremely ridiculous and goofy.

Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. It's the cross pollination of 'The Bourne Identity' and 'James Bond;' that kind of style of filmmaking.

I grew up on the Bond movies. The first one I saw was 'Diamonds Are Forever,' when I was a kid. I just loved them to pieces.

I would love to work on a Bond film.

I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like 'Bourne.'

The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got into the Fleming books after watching 'A View To A Kill' a few years later.

Germans aren't action fans. The only kind of action that really works is 'Bond.'

Nobody knew me. They just knew that I was the guy from 'Mission: Impossible.'

I wouldn't want to be a James Bond.

See, it's kind of like James Bond. There's a new James Bond every couple of years. Maybe I can do the new 'MacGyver' and put my own twist on it.

I've always loved 'Bond.' There were two franchises that I would always have dropped everything to do as a director. 'Bond' was one; 'Star Wars' was other.

Maybe I'll get into a Bond film... I always thought I'd be a Bond Girl when I was young.

I started with 'Baaghi,' in which I cast Tiger Shroff. And then with director Imtiaz Ali's entry in our production, I tried totally different films like 'Tamasha,' etc.