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" If you were around when 'Them!' or 'Tarantula' came out, those effects were as good as you had ever seen. "
Dean Devlin
Those
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Good
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" There's no doubt in the world that I am the biggest 'Doctor Who' fan. "
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Who
Doctor
" 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. "
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Adventure
Out
Superhero
" 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. "
Dean Devlin
Go
Fan
Awards
" I like to make popcorn movies. It's my passion. I love the genre. "
Dean Devlin
Passion
Like
Love
" Usually when you're doing a season one, you're trying to find the show. "
Dean Devlin
You
Doing
Trying
" There are three things that I'm addicted to when it comes to entertainment. In no particular order, One, I'm addicted to the cheer moment. 'Librarians' has plenty of them. Next, I feel that life is hard, and I want my entertainment fun, and 'Librarians' is fun as a Christmas party. And third, I like to be moved. "
Dean Devlin
Life
Feel
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" 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. "
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I Can
Want
You
" When you look at our Godzilla, you won't feel any nostalgia. "
Dean Devlin
Our
You
Any
" In the '80s, all the movies became predictable. "
Dean Devlin
Predictable
Became
Movies
" Everybody already knows what Godzilla is. "
Dean Devlin
Godzilla
Everybody
Knows
" Stories about travelers coming into town and doing good have been part of our storytelling since the Bible. "
Dean Devlin
Stories
Good
Doing Good
" We make movies that crack us up and hope that they crack up other people, too. "
Dean Devlin
People
Up
Crack
" The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart. "
Dean Devlin
Brain
Soul
Heart
" 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. "
Dean Devlin
Reach
Group
Partner
" 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. "
Dean Devlin
Today
Three
Looking
" It's always hard to watch something you create be put in somebody else's hands. "
Dean Devlin
Watch
You
Create
" As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one. "
Dean Devlin
Independence
Never
Day
" Television is like speed chess, as you have no time and no money. It is like trying to play Grandmaster chess with a 20 minute timer. The rewards are great, though, as it moves faster and you get to see the finished results much quicker. "
Dean Devlin
Great
You
Trying
" We have to produce a high-quality show, but we have less and less time and money to do it. If you are using the tapeless approach to save money, you will. "
Dean Devlin
Save
Will
Money
" Portland has all the accoutrements of a big city, but the heart and soul of it is a small town, so that creates an intimacy in a large environment. "
Dean Devlin
Small
Soul
City
" 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. "
Dean Devlin
Time
Sick
Truth Is
" 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. "
Dean Devlin
Guy
Character
You
" 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. "
Dean Devlin
Lights
Dark
Enough
" When you convince sci-fi fans you've done something cool, you get them in huge numbers. "
Dean Devlin
Convince
Cool
Done
" I don't think these weather conditions are going to get better on their own. "
Dean Devlin
Better
Weather
Think
" 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. "
Dean Devlin
History
Camera
Good
" We're often accused of trying to manipulate opinion or that we're trying to elevate society. I think that the greatest thing we can do is to give you a vacation. "
Dean Devlin
Think
Society
Opinion
" 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?' "
Dean Devlin
Watch
Together
Nice
" The scale of 'Independence Day' is much more than 'Stargate.' "
Dean Devlin
Much
More
Independence
" A lot of sci-fi shows are very cold, too concerned with hardware. "
Dean Devlin
Hardware
Too
Cold