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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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" There's no doubt in the world that I am the biggest 'Doctor Who' fan. "

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

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

" The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart. "

" I like to make popcorn movies. It's my passion. I love the genre. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 'Stargate' has always had this empty hole. When we made the first one, we always intended on doing part two and three, and we were prevented for years. And our hope is that we can get another chance at 'Stargate' and tell the entire story we wanted to tell. "

" When you convince sci-fi fans you've done something cool, you get them in huge numbers. "

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

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

" In the '80s, all the movies became predictable. "

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

" There's a lot of superhero stuff out there and a lot of cop stuff out there. What we have very little of anymore is adventure. "

" 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. "

" We always want our leaders to be great leaders. "

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

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

" We make movies that crack us up and hope that they crack up other people, too. "

" In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change. "

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

" I just make the movies I want to see. I've always been that way. "

" 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'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?' "

" Most young American actors feel like teenagers. "

" Had the car companies continued to do generation two, generation three, generation four of the EV-1, we'd be looking at a spectacular car today. "

" 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.' "

" I know I screwed up my 'Godzilla.' "