A Quote by Doug Liman
To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.
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Behind that picture of me, thousands and thousands of people, they suffered - more than me. They died. They lost parts of their bodies. Their whole lives were destroyed, and nobody took that picture.
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