Dean Devlin Quotes
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The budget on cable television is dramatically less than network television.
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Usually when you're doing a season one, you're trying to find the show.
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Most young American actors feel like teenagers.
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Stories about travelers coming into town and doing good have been part of our storytelling since the Bible.
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I think when real life interrupts fantasy, it's always shocking.
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'The Book of Love' is the kind of James L. Brooks mainstream movie that the majors are ignoring.
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We make movies that crack us up and hope that they crack up other people, too.
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Portland has all the accoutrements of a big city, but the heart and soul of it is a small town, so that creates an intimacy in a large environment.
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I don't think these weather conditions are going to get better on their own.
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I don't think of myself as a former actor. I think of myself as a reformed actor.
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That transcends everything - skipping the transfer of dailies is a game-changer.
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'Stargate' has always had this empty hole. When we made the first one, we always intended on doing part two and three, and we were prevented for years. And our hope is that we can get another chance at 'Stargate' and tell the entire story we wanted to tell.
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I like to get emotional when I watch my entertainment.
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'Independence Day,' ever since we did it, there's been enormous pressure to follow it up.
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It was somewhere in doing the last season of 'Leverage' that John Rogers and I became confident that we had developed an all-new production technique where we could put more on the screen with very little money. So we started to get more comfortable with the idea of trying to tackle 'The Librarians.'
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The great thing about adventure, when told correctly, is it is one of the few genres that everybody in the family can watch together.
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There was no studio involved when we made 'Stargate.' It was financed through Le Studio Canal+ in France and, after the film was finished, it was sold to MGM. When the film was a success, MGM decided to do a television series based on the movie.
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We're making high-budget movies with a low-budget attitude.
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Of all the projects I've ever done, 'Stargate' is the only one from the beginning intended to be a trilogy. We always wanted to do parts two and three, but the thinking was they didn't want to do anything other than the TV series.
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We did the original 'Stargate' as an independent movie. It was a surprise success. Shortly before the movie came out, the financiers who were frightened the movie might not do well sold the film to MGM. When the film came out, it was a hit and spawned TV shows.
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We don't over-manage projects like the studios do.
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'Leverage' is meant to be based in Boston. But in one episode we're in New York, then another in Chicago, Florida, and Eastern Europe.
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I haven't had the egomaniac star yet in any of my films. It's always been a pleasure.
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I can tell you as a fact that if you'd asked anyone in Hollywood one year before 'Pirates of the Caribbean' had come out, they'd have told you the pirate movie was a dead genre. And it's not that it's a dead genre. If you make a bad pirate movie, no one will want to see it. If you make a good one, everyone will want to see it.