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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. "

Dean Devlin

Season

Support

" We intellectualize it, and we rationalize it, but it's really about a love of movies, and I think whether you're making an art film or you're making a genre film, if you don't really love that movie you are trying to make, you'll be able to tell. "

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

" 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. "

" Everybody already knows what Godzilla is. "

" We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals. "

" There was no studio involved when we made 'Stargate.' It was financed through Le Studio Canal+ in France and, after the film was finished, it was sold to MGM. When the film was a success, MGM decided to do a television series based on the movie. "

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

" The Titanic hit the iceberg not because they could not see it coming but because they could not change direction. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Dean Devlin

Hero

Dinner

" 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. "

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

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

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

Dean Devlin

Independence

Day

" 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. "

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

" '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. "

" 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. "

Dean Devlin

Money

Said

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

Dean Devlin

People

Crack

" 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.' "

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

Dean Devlin

Godzilla

Know

" 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. "

" Usually when you're doing a season one, you're trying to find the 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. "

" In Portland, there are so many trained artists and technicians, there's an enormous talent base. And it's not like second-stringers. "

Dean Devlin

Talent

Many

" 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. "

" Most young American actors feel like teenagers. "

Dean Devlin

Feel

American