Dean Devlin Quotes
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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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'Independence Day,' ever since we did it, there's been enormous pressure to follow it up.
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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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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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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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Following a pre-cellphone world of children on an adventure is incredibly appealing for me. These are the kinds of movies I fell in love with and made me want to be a filmmaker in the first place.
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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.
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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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In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change.
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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 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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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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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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When you look at our Godzilla, you won't feel any nostalgia.
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A lot of sci-fi shows are very cold, too concerned with hardware.
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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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Just to be back in the world of 'The Librarian' again was such a joy.
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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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It's always hard to watch something you create be put in somebody else's hands.
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I know I screwed up my 'Godzilla.'
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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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We all want our children to be terrific, but you can't force a child into being what you want it to be.
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The advantage of the Genesis is that it's a rock-solid camera, made by a company with an enormous history and a huge support base. Plus, it's very good in low light using all the Panavision lenses. The downside is that you're recording on tape.
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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.