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" 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

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

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

" 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 are an enormous amount of techniques I wanted to beta test in television. You can't take those risks on a $100 million movie. "

" 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.' "

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" Stories about travelers coming into town and doing good have been part of our storytelling since the Bible. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" The great thing about adventure, when told correctly, is it is one of the few genres that everybody in the family can watch together. "

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

" I don't think you can figure this stuff out. If you could figure all this stuff out, then all the great filmmakers would come out of Yale and Harvard. It's not an intellectual process. "

" I don't think of myself as a former actor. I think of myself as a reformed actor. "

" These audiences are so damn smart, way smarter than the studios give them credit for. "

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

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