Biography

May 26, 1970 · New York City, New York, USA

John Liman Hamburg

5′ 11″ (1.80 m)

Cousin of Doug Liman

Is the son of New York radio talk show host Joan Hamburg.

Regarding Along Came Polly (2004): "It's an amazing cast. I managed to fool a lot of people. You know, I'm very good at lying and cheating my way through meetings and I got a studio to give me a lot of money to make this movie. So it's pretty good. [NBC News interview, January 30, 2003]

I was a history major, but that was because it took the fewest requirements of any major. In my sophomore year I started getting back into making movies. My senior year I took playwriting classes, and I feel like that's where I learned to be a writer. I started to write monologues, and that was great because that got me really deeply into characters.

A movie like The Apartment is beautifully directed, but you can't put your finger on why it's such a good movie. It just is, because of all these things that Billy Wilder is subtly doing. That level of filmmaking is something I aspire to.