Dean Devlin Quotes
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'Independence Day,' ever since we did it, there's been enormous pressure to follow it up.
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We are cannibalizing our audience by only giving them regurgitated material. Every movie is either a remake, a sequel, based on something else. Based on a former television series. Based on a successful videogame.
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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 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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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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If you were around when 'Them!' or 'Tarantula' came out, those effects were as good as you had ever seen.
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In the '70s, you didn't know who was going to survive in a disaster film.
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Portland is a two-hour flight from L.A. It has wonderful talent, and it hasn't been shot to death. I'm all in favor of it becoming a serious player in the industry.
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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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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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I know I screwed up my 'Godzilla.'
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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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In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change.
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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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In movies, we've run out of ideas for bad guys. We end up with politically incorrect villains, like Arab terrorists or Latin drug dealers or corrupt politicians. Well, aliens are the best film villains since the Nazis. You don't have to worry about offending anyone.
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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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It's fun to watch a show that you can watch with any member of your family, and you're going to laugh, and you're going to be moved, and you're going to have fun, rather than this dark, brooding, cold, 'purely procedural show.'
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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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Just to be back in the world of 'The Librarian' again was such a joy.
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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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I love what they do with 'Doctor Who,' where they have the series, and then they do a big Christmas movie special.
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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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There's no doubt in the world that I am the biggest 'Doctor Who' fan.