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" I hope to make the most expensive movie in history at some point! "

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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.' "

" A lot of sci-fi shows are very cold, too concerned with hardware. "

" The budget on cable television is dramatically less than network television. "

" Spielberg is our hero. For him to make a nod to 'Godzilla' just before we make our movie is like getting the king to acknowledge you at dinner. "

" We all want our children to be terrific, but you can't force a child into being what you want it to be. "

" 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. "

" In the '70s, you didn't know who was going to survive in a disaster film. "

" The days of family entertainment seem to have left us. "

" There are amazing behind-the-scenes technicians in Portland who didn't want to raise their families in L.A. "

" When you look at our Godzilla, you won't feel any nostalgia. "

" 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. "

" I think that I do about 85% of what I used to do on my computer now on my iPad. "

" When I tried to get 'Stargate' made, I took it to every studio in Hollywood and every studio said, 'Sci-fi is dead. It's a dead genre. No one wants to see science fiction anymore.' And I had to go and raise the money independently to make that movie. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't think these weather conditions are going to get better on their own. "

" If you were around when 'Them!' or 'Tarantula' came out, those effects were as good as you had ever seen. "

" There is a renaissance of really great genre entertainment happening. But it's become incredibly audience-specific. "

" 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. "

" Filmmaking is a real democracy - it's up to the audience to vote with their tickets. "

" There's a real difference now in what you can get out of film and the rise of digital platforms. "

" I would love it if the whole 'Godzilla' franchise was revitalized for a new generation. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love what they do with 'Doctor Who,' where they have the series, and then they do a big Christmas movie special. "

" Just to be back in the world of 'The Librarian' again was such a joy. "

" As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one. "

" The scale of 'Independence Day' is much more than 'Stargate.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "