Doug Liman

To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' - every scene is from those characters' point of view. They're in literally every scene, very unusual in a big studio film.

My films are very rooted in specific people's point of view. Some film-makers give a more global point of view, like God looking down at the characters.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.