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" I know I screwed up my 'Godzilla.' "
Dean Devlin
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" The budget on cable television is dramatically less than network television. "
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" We're making high-budget movies with a low-budget attitude. "
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" I think when real life interrupts fantasy, it's always shocking. "
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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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" I always wish I had another shot at it. But, listen, 'Godzilla' is something that I grew up loving. We worked hard to go make one. We kind of blew it. I think everyone gets one. "
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" 'Independence Day,' ever since we did it, there's been enormous pressure to follow it up. "
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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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" These audiences are so damn smart, way smarter than the studios give them credit for. "
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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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" Paramount Pictures is a perfect partner for Electric Entertainment, with the most stable group of executives in Hollywood and unparalleled global promotion and distribution reach. "
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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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" We've always had a simple philosophy in casting. We don't care if somebody's a big star or a little star. We just want the best possible actor for the part. "
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" I just make the movies I want to see. I've always been that way. "
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" We had an amazing experience shooting the first season of 'Leverage' with such a talented cast and crew and with the full support of TNT behind us. "
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Us
" We took over with 'Leverage' three warehouses, and now four with 'The Librarians,' and turned them into proper sound stages with sound doors and all the lights. We now have control of four real, proper-sized sound stages. The problem is they're dark and empty half of the year because there aren't enough productions coming into Oregon. "
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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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" Usually when you're doing a season one, you're trying to find the 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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" 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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" As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one. "
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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 don't think these weather conditions are going to get better on their own. "
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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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" In the '70s, you didn't know who was going to survive in a disaster film. "
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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 that I do about 85% of what I used to do on my computer now on my iPad. "
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