Dean Devlin Quotes
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The budget on cable television is dramatically less than network television.
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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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I don't think these weather conditions are going to get better on their own.
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We're often accused of trying to manipulate opinion or that we're trying to elevate society. I think that the greatest thing we can do is to give you a vacation.
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We make movies that crack us up and hope that they crack up other people, too.
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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 don't think of myself as a former actor. I think of myself as a reformed actor.
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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 like to get emotional when I watch my entertainment.
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We're making high-budget movies with a low-budget attitude.
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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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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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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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I haven't had the egomaniac star yet in any of my films. It's always been a pleasure.
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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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'Independence Day,' ever since we did it, there's been enormous pressure to follow it up.
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I would love it if the whole 'Godzilla' franchise was revitalized for a new generation.
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We don't over-manage projects like the studios do.
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In the '70s, you didn't know who was going to survive in a disaster film.