Dean Devlin Quotes
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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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Filmmaking is a real democracy - it's up to the audience to vote with their tickets.
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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 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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We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.
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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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I like to make popcorn movies. It's my passion. I love the genre.
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'Librarians' is surprisingly touching in a lot of ways where it's not expected.
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A lot of sci-fi shows are very cold, too concerned with hardware.
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When you look at our Godzilla, you won't feel any nostalgia.
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There are an enormous amount of techniques I wanted to beta test in television. You can't take those risks on a $100 million movie.
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The truth is, we were sick of, every time we finished a movie, having to start all over again from nothing, going to a studio, pitching an idea, setting up a new office.
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These audiences are so damn smart, way smarter than the studios give them credit for.
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'The Outpost' is an exciting fantasy with a strong female lead that will capture the imagination of fans of both 'Game of Thrones' and 'Wonder Woman.'
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I think that I do about 85% of what I used to do on my computer now on my iPad.
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When I first came to Oregon, the annual amount spent on production was $1 million to $1.5 million. By the time 'Leverage' was done, there had been over $100 million in production that year.
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I don't think you can figure this stuff out. If you could figure all this stuff out, then all the great filmmakers would come out of Yale and Harvard. It's not an intellectual process.
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We're going to come back to Oregon, whether it's with another show, or a pilot, or a movie. We love working up there. I think it's got one of the most amazing talent pools of any state in the union.
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There is a renaissance of really great genre entertainment happening. But it's become incredibly audience-specific.
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I think there's a lot of factors that go into the whole awards thing. I've never been that big a fan of it.
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I think if we did 'Stargate' right, the fans would like it, and we could do something really good. But if we screw it up, they'll reject it. As they should.
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Many years ago, I was actually hired to write the sequel to 'Independence Day.' And I wrote a sequel. And they paid me a boatload of money to go write this thing. And after I wrote it, I read it and I gave them back the money and I said, 'Look, this is an okay movie I just wrote. But it's not worthy of the sequel to 'Independence Day.'
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'Stargate' was more a fantasy.
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We always want our leaders to be great leaders.