Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I think when real life interrupts fantasy, it's always shocking. "

Related Quotes:

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" Most young American actors feel like teenagers. "

" Kurt Russell is the guy you know. He's not something out of a weight-lifting magazine or a cartoon character. The closest thing to him would have been Steve McQueen. "

" I haven't had the egomaniac star yet in any of my films. It's always been a pleasure. "

" 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. "

" 'Independence Day,' ever since we did it, there's been enormous pressure to follow it up. "

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

" 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've always said that I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I could make a great movie about him if I set my mind to it. "

" 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. "

" The real trick to these movies and making the big action sequences work - and I've forgotten this sometimes and screwed it up - the characters really have to be humanized. Because you can have the greatest special effects in the world, but if you don't care about the people in those effects, there's no impact. "

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

" I've always lived by this philosophy, when it comes to conspiracies, never to attribute to deviousness that which can be explained by incompetence. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 'Leverage' is meant to be based in Boston. But in one episode we're in New York, then another in Chicago, Florida, and Eastern Europe. "

" We don't over-manage projects like the studios do. "

" I like to get emotional when I watch my entertainment. "

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

" 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. "

" We're making high-budget movies with a low-budget attitude. "

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