Dean Devlin Quotes
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I know I screwed up my 'Godzilla.'
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I would love it if the whole 'Godzilla' franchise was revitalized for a new generation.
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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 don't think of myself as a former actor. I think of myself as a reformed actor.
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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 like to get emotional when I watch my entertainment.
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That's one of the best things about the RED ONE - I can use all the best lenses that have been used in film forever.
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With 'The Librarians,' we want to be a smart, fun, crazy, genre show, but we also want to be something that people of all ages can watch and enjoy. That, to me, does seem to be increasingly harder to find.
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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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In the '70s, you didn't know who was going to survive in a disaster film.
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We don't over-manage projects like the studios do.
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There are amazing behind-the-scenes technicians in Portland who didn't want to raise their families in L.A.
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John Rogers has an encyclopedic mind. Having John as our showrunner is the gift that keeps on giving. He knows more trivial information than anyone I've ever met in my entire life.
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We're so specialized now in our entertainment. It's nice to do a show where you're really circling back to this idea of, 'Couldn't there be a show the whole family can watch together?'
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If you were around when 'Them!' or 'Tarantula' came out, those effects were as good as you had ever seen.
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Just to be back in the world of 'The Librarian' again was such a joy.
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As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.
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We have to produce a high-quality show, but we have less and less time and money to do it. If you are using the tapeless approach to save money, you will.
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I think we have a culture that creates heroes and then needs to knock them down, and then you have to see what the third act brings.
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We intellectualize it, and we rationalize it, but it's really about a love of movies, and I think whether you're making an art film or you're making a genre film, if you don't really love that movie you are trying to make, you'll be able to tell.
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There's no doubt in the world that I am the biggest 'Doctor Who' fan.
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In Portland, there are so many trained artists and technicians, there's an enormous talent base. And it's not like second-stringers.
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I've always lived by this philosophy, when it comes to conspiracies, never to attribute to deviousness that which can be explained by incompetence.
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There's a real difference now in what you can get out of film and the rise of digital platforms.