Trivia

He wanted to do Edge of Tomorrow (2014) because it showed a role Tom Cruise hadn't done yet; someone very bad at what they do.

He liked Edge of Tomorrow (2014) because he got to reshoot the same scenes until he got them right, a result of the film being set in a time warp.

Got to read the script for Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) for the first time on the set of The Bourne Identity (2002), but rejected it. Brad Pitt then gave it to him for a second time after Liman had finished The Bourne Identity (2002).

Attended and graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island (1988).

Originally did not want to cast Scott Wolf in Go (1999) because Katie Holmes was already in the movie, and he did not want the movie to star two television actors. However, he saw him talking in a hallway with Jay Mohr and realized that the chemistry between the two would be good in the movie.

During Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Emily Blunt took Liman and Tom Cruise out for karaoke one night; she terrified Liman by getting to see her in that different light.

His father, Arthur L. Liman, was one of the prosecutors in the Iran-Contra Affair (in The Bourne Identity (2002), Liman portrays a likewise agency within agency...).

Attended and graduated from USC School of Cinema-Television (1992).

Tom Cruise did all his own stunts on Edge of Tomorrow (2014); Doug Liman felt he could make an amazing career out of it.

Lives in Tribeca area of Manhattan, New York City.

Liman felt he had to keep up with Tom Cruise all throughout filming Edge of Tomorrow (2014).

Is actively involved in the Arthur L. Liman undergraduate fellowship program.

Serves on the boards of the Legal Action Center (LAC) and Symphony Space.

As of 2001, Vice Chairman of the production company HYPNOTIC.

In one of 105 people invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science (AMPAS) in 2008.

Graduated in same high school class with actor/director Charles Herman-Wurmfeld.

Cousin of John Hamburg.

Son of Arthur L. Liman & Ellen Liman.

Grandson of Gertrude Fogelson.